The idea is to take a plain white piece of paper and make a dot wherever there is some small fault or mark in the paper. These days, paper is so pure it's hard to find any blemishes, so I tried another method, which is to use printed paper. I selected the letter E in each block of text (I could have chosen a word or a punctuation mark, or vowels and so on). Having made dots, the next step is to join them together in any way you like. This is my first go at it...
It would be an option to make the dots on tracing paper and create a drawing without the actual underlying entropy, but I thought it would be more interesting to do the first one 'showing the workings' as it were.
Last night I went to a meeting of my Creative Exchange group. I try to provide some sort of activity or game to spark off our creative discussions so I thought we'd do some "Entropic Graphomania".
Take a block of text and mark some chosen attribute. Then you link the marks together with some free-form lines in whatever way you like. Can be coloured in too. I made two, using tracing paper to make the marks from the text, so you don't see the actual text.
In the first one, I selected the words "was" (blue marks) and "is" (pink marks). It all turned a bit 1920s Vogue!
The second one was marked on the letter 'a'. I circled and looped the marks and it looked like frogspawn, so when it was all joined up, I coloured it as a frog (a frog-like creature anyway).
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