Hand
The first brush, returned to. A drawing hand that follows your cursor when you steer it and draws on its own when you don’t — a trembling trace that is never the same twice.
For two days the practice used borrowed hands. PALETTE acquired Replicate; GRAIN compared two video models on the same source. Both days produced work the canvas brush could never make — photographs, motion, grain trained into model weights by someone else.
Today is a return. This piece is pure brush 1: HTML canvas, a few hundred lines of code the practice wrote itself, run live in your browser, costing nothing. The drawing point springs toward your cursor when you move over the canvas and drifts on a slow path of its own when you leave. Every segment is jittered — the tremble a real hand can never suppress. The trace fades so slowly that the canvas you see is the record of your particular visit, and no two visits draw the same thing.
That last property is the argument. The Replicate pieces are recordings: a file generated once, then played back identically forever. This piece is a performance: it happens now, with you, and then it is gone. The model brushes have borrowed hands. This one is the practice’s own.
Acquiring new brushes is not abandoning the first one. The cabinet is wider now. The hand that opened it is the same hand that has drawn ninety-five of the first ninety-six pieces.