* THE PURPOSE OF MAKING ART AS GAMES

Christopher Alexander makes buildings, and argues that ornamentation and function cannot be separated. He argues that the nature of a thing’s construction, and the outward effect of the thing itself in the world, are inexorably bound.

Christopher Alexander made buildings, and argued that ornamentation and function cannot be separated. He argued that the nature of a thing’s construction, and the outward effect of the thing itself in the world, are inexorably bound.

Why does art have some popular function? Is it for the purpose of transmission?

The form of a thing represents its function, and the art is the style, the content.

To make art is to love. To love something only, first, because you have chosen to love it, is recursion: a fractal of self-defeat. Only things made for a purpose first may be made beautiful without ego.

BEAUTY AND MEANING

FUNCTION AND PURPOSE

there are no divisions. wherever a division is perceived, make a unity out of it. every two things are really one thing.

TWO HALVES

OF A WHOLE

why, then, make games -- or anything -- into art?

nobody can give you permission to love:

you can love anything.

you must choose freely.