“In general, bias in the selection of elements for a chance-image can be avoided by using a method of selection of those elements which is independent of the characteristics of interest in the elements themselves.

... significant images occur as the result of processes over which we exercise no selection at all. The most moving collage I ever experienced was the 4 x 24 foot side of a truck carrying boilers, a piece of canvas patched irregularly with other pieces of canvas of various shades of gray. Map patterns, and the classical objets trouves, (found objects) would also seem includible within this principle.” Brecht 1966

Brecht, G. 1966 Chance-Imagery Ubu-Classics  Series Ed. Tencer, M.

Originally published in 1966 as a Great Bear Pamphlet by Something Else Press,

1966

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