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ongoing intertwining relative reality

Series of series of series... (Un)Structure(d Data) Development happens not only in a linear way so i t's impossible to order or structure within sharp borders. Every attempt in that direction ends up in a self-destructive structure.  As each captured state evolves into another, simultaneously and multidirectional, like a ripple. Even though the creations within the 'Digital gardening' project are not organised in a predefined manner,  using preset options, we can only decide how  minimal or drastic a certain change is. E xperience makes  it more and more easy to direct, but only within this preset structure.  This series are  built within the strategic ambiguity of a  flexible 'shapeless form' and each 'plausible outcome' is added to exist in the series.  And each manifestation within the series contains certain relational aspects. If placed within a 'Shared Context', it can be understood from that point of view. But there are endless possible conte

Introduction and history

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Digital notes in The Garden digital art project by Reggie Voigtländer  aka  'Digital Gardening' project Introduction The 'Digital Gardening' project started in 2018, as an ongoing cycle of intertwining series of digital images, based upon visual content published on social media platform Facebook. The original images are edited by phone using a fixed set of free apps, including their  advertisements.  One app offers the possibility to place content into well known historical paintings:   'Starry night over the Rhone' by van Gogh, 'A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Seurat and, a painting of indigenous people in what's now the USA by 'American landscape' painter Albert Bierstadt, 'Calumny of Apelles' by Botticelli, a Field of Poppies by Monet, 'Children of the sea' by Jozef Israëls (1872) and'The Scream' by Edvard Munch. Another app transforms the results into  attractive, painterly images, graphic