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Work, Life, Balance
- Artist
- Matt Nish-Lapidus
- Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Self-Published
- Format
- Artists' Books
- Genre
- Poetry
Work, Life, Balance is a procedural poem. Lines of text fill out a poetic array and are combinatorially processed through a simple script. A hammer is repurposed in over three thousand ways, exploring what it means to make and destroy through the logic of computational loops and iterations.
A hammer for …
made out of …
wielded by …
for smashing …
for building …
For each of these beginnings there are five endings, except the first for which there are six. The book contains every possible combination of these variations over 880 pages.
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A hammer for the poor and the needy,
and for the rich and the poor,
and for those who want to be rich and free
made out of a bunch of things
that he’s probably never seen before
wielded by the first-place team
for smashing a wall or building up an army
for building the new world map of the game.
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