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Collages
Three kinds of digital collage, all made with the system
Collage is how the system's material turns into images. Some become paintings, some become a Spell's catalog, some stay as prints and posts.
Collage into painting
Silence Is Louder Than Sound · 2025Made by running the constructed language z0glyphic 913 end to end: scraped online material, read by the language's Satirical Metaphor Engine, composed as a digital collage, screen-printed onto canvas and worked into with oil.
- Material is gatheredMaterial is scraped from online sources.
- The language reads itThe Satirical Metaphor Engine turns the material into a reading and a title.
- A digital collage is composedThe reading decides what goes in; the pieces are cut and layered on screen.
- It is screen-printedThe collage is screen-printed onto canvas or wood.
- Then paintedOil goes on by hand, on top.
KAKO, 2025. Ink on canvas, 72 × 96 in.
Packed collages from Spells
one per Spell, hundreds madeWhen a Spell is culled, its kept pictures are packed into collages by a script: rough and crude, heavily fragmented, grids within grids, in eight designs. Each collage is saved with its recipe, so it can be made again. See them inside the Spells →
Generated scene collages
2026Scenes assembled by a script from cut-out figures and generated pictures, given an invented title and a line of glyphs.
