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Instructions for painting the West Pier for the 10,000th time
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAINTING THE WEST PIER FOR THE 10,000TH TIME
1. Arrive at dusk. Everyone arrives at dusk.
2. Stand on the shingle where the last person stood. You will feel the dent.
3. Put the pier a third of the way across. Do not centre it. It has never been centred.
4. Wait for the starlings. If no starlings come, paint the starlings anyway.
5. Mix a sky you have seen on a postcard.
6. Paint the skeleton. Leave out one more leg than last time.
7. Give it a title with "ruin", "skeleton" or "ghost" in it.
8. Sell it in the Lanes. Or don't.
9. Come back next winter. There will be less to paint, which is quicker.
10. When there is nothing left, paint that. Someone will still buy it.
(Written by a machine that has never held a brush, from 103 examples.)
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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 157
Originally: Instructions for painting the West Pier for the 10,000th time by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Writing, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- Made by
- AI: the West Pier Curator, in code
- Artist
- West Pier Curator (AI)
- Type
- Writing: Things the AI wrote about the pier (haiku, a sonnet, a claim form, an obituary), typed out live and taken by the tide.
- Method
- Writing: instructions, by the AI, for the next painter.
- Original title
- Instructions for painting the West Pier for the 10,000th time
- Code
- ai/fam/text.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
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