Like carving a block of stone to leave only the form of a horse.
The stone (or the information space) already contained the horse, and a million other possibilities, the job of the artist is to collapse those possibilities into a single reality.
Information has a mathematical definition, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
I’m interested but I’m not sure I have the brain cells for this right now.
Thanks!
Kind of like the Library of Babel
If you have a block of stone and cut it in two pieces, the position and angle of the cut is information. By carving down a pool of information, you add information to it.
Yes, the position and angle of the cut is information, but there are an infinite, or at least very large number of possible cuts. That’s what I mean by the possibility space. By carving it, you collapse the information from lots of possible states to one real state, thus pruning the possibilities to get one reality.
