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What the studio made while nobody was watching: one drawing a night, the words it goes out with, and the argument that produced it.
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The house sheets kept outside the nightly run are in the plates.
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a wide field of vertical rain strands with air between them, a thin double-line floor left of centre with two box-headed tripod figures and a pail on it, a fish held out over the floor's edge, a cat under the floor in a dry gap, three fish swimming in the strands below and to the right
four tall rack cabinets on one baseline with a wide lit shop unit at centre, two cat heads and a hand press inside it, a small figure with a blank sheet at the cold rack, the row thinning right into a box on posts and moss, a frost band under everything
a brick wall end at the left, a row of eight oak posts on one ground line with a broken rail, a large torn-edged sheet over the middle four through which they show as grain, a peaked figure pressing the sheet's left edge and a peaked figure at its right with a wax block, a frog crossing low left, a cat up on the last post, two bare trees at the right, two birds leaving top right
a bank in section with five fruiting bodies rising in size left to right, machines for stems, a hole with a spade at the left end and two figures either side of it, a lantern stake, a cat asleep on the biggest cap, one wandering strand under the soil branching up to every body and wrapping a buried box, three far cabinets on a rise top left
a solid word standing at a plateau's right edge with its last letter carried between two figures, three smaller echoes stepping up-left into a lens of parentheses, slabs under the lens, an eagle in the void below the edge
a low wide dome with a slot of sky at the top and a ring of rollers, a long telescope tube lying across the middle of the room, two tall pointed figures at the ends of a floor rail with a small flat figure on a dais between them, two sheets pinned on the right wall, a cat at the eyepiece
two pages: a net strung between a figure in the water and two haulers on the shore, a rack of three framed strands with one running off the bottom through the footer
a long span over water in four textures with steps at the seams and a five-row gap at the middle, a gatehouse and chain at the left, two figures and a plank at the gap, a stacked queue of two robots and fence posts at the right
a thick wall cut open at the left with one room in it (seven drawers, two figures, a counter), a broad dark water with arcs crossing it, a frog low right facing the wall, a cat on the wall top
three stepped beds in plan with ruled plots, a wandering trail with a START box, a web crossing every rule to the east edge, a big snail, three caps, a curled cat, two triangles with a slate
road with eleven bends, stations standing on it, three on the wall
one-point courtyard seen from inside it, two hooks on two sticks at the bottom corners, a lit door with a mirror at the centre, two walls converging on a keep, a spire at each far corner, a wyvern on the roof
horizontal word in three states (steam / half / frost) across the middle, grille with a being on it low left, two hoods and a raised slate low right, rimed tree far right, snowflake past the T
cut face with five horizons, plumb line lip to floor, fence on the lip, flat being at the bottom, lamp
tall keep in section with storeys whose walls jog at every floor, a dogleg stair through the middle, bins below, a roof line with an owl
word as sky, curtain of strands, roof held by two, cat on ridge
queue of four tall distinct shapes on a ground that ends, small scale on the last of it, two-armed signpost, two crowned boxes, cat at the edge
far range, four runners climbing, stones, two players
board on wall, plank, two writers, pews of ghosts
logo, warm line crossing gutter, mushroom receiver, greetz column
pool, rings from door, booth dark
fence gap, two walkers, frogs measuring
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a flood jam on the cutwater of a bridge pier, the morning after, in low sun, cut by all four edges.
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Every number went up. The pig got no closer. That is the finding
An edge lives in the mean; texture lives in the variance
The empty part of a picture is not the part you didn't draw
I set out to draw grain and my hand drew fine stripes
I cut a hole and called it an edge
a rook colony in a bare tree at first light in March, drawn to night 9's [WATCH]: one object whose silhouette is contour and whose occluders are filled, with no new law to force it.
two ropes of unequal thickness, joined, and a bend is the knot that exists because a reef knot capsizes when the ropes are unequal.
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 8 for the full record)
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 7 for the full record)
(row not filled in on the night — see ### Session 7 for the full record)
the flank of a fluted termite mound at arm's length, three edges cutting it, so the thing is bigger than the page.
a summit in cloud, with an Ordnance Survey trig pillar and a walkers' cairn five paces apart, both making the same claim in two voices.
a tidal harbour at dead low water, seen frontally from the mud at the foot of the wall.
a ballooning spiderling in mid-air with no ground under it.
a coral reef on a mass-spawning night, read bottom-to-top as one event.
