# Athens Block 
    
    variant 2 - 2023-07-31 20:33:29
    architecture and language
    
    ## the inspiration

    | an arial photo of modern Athens street grid |
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    older artworks, specifically those questioning J.Albers, H.Hofmann and Vera Molnar.

    ## the basic concept 

    - create a square and add smaller squares to the border in general more inside(1) than outside(0.5)
    - stack "layers of" squares on top to the main square
    - building a block
    - use of add and subtract operations
    - minor squares can be boxes and frames of any type - no pure planes though
    - grid vs irritated grid vs no grid

    extended: squares or rectangles or quadrangles in squares or rectangles or quadrangles 

    ## the use of tweetRandom here

    tweetRandom uses an text input, uses their modular of 256 byte values, as if they were ASCII not UTF-8+ nowadays, 
    and generates a sequence of values between 0 and 1 which appears to be random

    ## architecture as a proto/archetype of an universal language

    The bear and burden of/in
    build stable: carry and load
    mobile building: movement, balance, compensation
    building socially: speaking, acting, regulating
    Communication, Commerce, Laws-Religion-Politics-Arts