Comments on: art as answer-space

By: Droqen

Droqen — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:57:31 +0000

yes, sometimes the answer precedes the question 🙂 often the process, however it starts, can involve moving the goalposts so that the answer i have becomes the perfect answer to some new question i never thought i’d ask, one i maybe never could have asked. sometimes i don’t need to pursue a question at all, i find i can erect a lovely post where i stand and that’s enough. like, “look at this!”

art is weird.

By: Ezra

Ezra — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:06:17 +0000

I wonder about your thoughts on games for which the answer precedes the question? The games that I’m most proud of usually work out that way – as scraps of other games (mechanics, themes) which I build out into something new.

By: Droqen

Droqen — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:40:34 +0000

P.S. Here are my earlier attempts at solving the problem:

haiku on tissue
limerick’s tune makes you swoon

cold haiku meter/cadence

haiku cold-blooded
couplet flooded, grieve the
flowers un-budded

haiku in cold blood // couplet’s hot crud
–but why cry? // limerick’s rhyme-flood

patternless haiku
couplet, at two
whoa! not so:
limerick, it’s true

By: Droqen

Droqen — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:29:38 +0000

There is something that I love about awake, and I think what I love about awake is that it does something impossible. It solves a problem nobody needed solved in the perfect way, but it makes itself the perfect solution in the same way that Kafka made his own precursors. The fact that it is both a pretty good acceptable solution, and the first and only solution which has ever been presented, makes us blind to every other possible solution. The unspoken problem becomes the problem which only the one work could solve. This hole was made for me.