artist-statement-the-recursive-self-portrait-v1

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        how ⇄ can ⇄ I ──make──▶ myself ──▶ a sentence ──that──▶ makes ──▶ a maker                
         ▲         │              │             │                            │                   
         │         ▼              ▼             ▼                            ▼                   
         │      to write    ╭──────────╮    that asks                   who writes               
         │         │        │  ◕‿◕  &  │       │                            │                    
         │         ▼        │  ⚆‿◕     │       ▼                            ▼                    
         │      a purpose   │ ╭──┬──╮  │   ╭──────────╮              an artist statement         
         │         │        │ │WIB│WOB│ │  │ PARADOX  │                     │                    
         │         ▼        │ ╰──┴──╯  │  │   ╱◉╲     │                     ▼                    
         │     ╭───────╮    ╰────┬─────╯  │  ╱ ??? ╲   │           ┌──────────────────┐          
         │     │ man + │    each makes    │ ╱       ╲  │           │  ___________      │         
         │     │machine│    the other     ╰────┬─────╯ │           │ / _________ \     │         
         │     ╰───┬───╯         │              │      │           │ |/    .-""-.\|    │         
         │         │             ▼              ▼      │           │ ||   / \   \||    │         
         │         └────▶ "there isn't ─────────┴──────┘           │ ||   |/`-._||    │          
         │                  a boundary"                            │ ||   (  _\ )|.-""-│         
         │                       │                                 │ ||   |\ = | /  /  │         
         │                       ▼                                 │ ||  /\ \_._/_.`\  │  ← it   
         │              ╭────────────────╮         spiral down     │ || /\_\__//   =`( │    looks
         │              │ read someone's │          # @ & % O      │ ||/`  \ \|  \__/ \│    back 
         │              │     mind ?     │            # @ &        │ |\_____|__;___)__/│         
         │              ╰────────┬───────╯              # @        │  jgs man+mirror   │         
         │                       ▼                    O : # @      └─────────┬─────────┘         
         │              be a poetic ──▶ digital ──▶ image            self──portrait              
         │                       │       O : # @                          │                      
         │                       ▼     & % O : #                          ▼                      
         │              a function that returns ──▶ itself ◀──────── (and looks                  
         │                       │                    │                back, tired)              
         │                       ▼                    │                                          
         │            .-.        and so traces ───────┘                                          
         │           /  aa  ◀── the whole graph back to                                          
         │           \ -,_)         its own first word :                                         
         │      _..._| \  `-<            │                                                       
         └─◀──." .__.' |                 ▼                                                       
              (        /`\        how ⇄ can ⇄ I ──make──▶ myself  (← you are here. again.)       
              (`'------'  /              ▲                  │                                    
              |\/;.______.'\             ╰────── loops ─────╯                                    
              ; \          /        ╭─ /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ ─╮                                                
          jgs '-'-......-'          │  snake's   │   the answer hasn't                           
            the snake eats          │  still     │   changed since 09:14                         
            its own tail            ╰─ eating ───╯   ...still drawing.  wib&wob