III.
A living flower with more than three living neighbors is starved and overcrowded. It dies.
Lot of Life (Alive)
A clay tablet stamped with the insignia of your life. The dread of death remains, impossibly distant and yet inevitable.
IV.
A dead flower with exactly three neighbors is reborn.
It springs back to life.
Lot of Life (Dead)
A clay tablet stamped with the insignia of your death. The hope of return remains, no matter how slim your chances.
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THE
FIFTH
RULE
Conway’s Game of Life has four rules. Let it be played on an infinite two-dimensional grid of flowers.
I.
A living flower with less than two living neighbors is cut off. It dies.
THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING
A small, jagged copper coin. Who left it here to rot in the dirt?
PROJECT CONTEXT
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II.
living flower with two or three neighbors is connected. It lives.
The only play permitted in the game is the arrangement of the initial flowers.
The purpose of this currency is to physically manifest the value gained in life and death through the metaphor of Conway’s game of life.
This concept is based on Unveiling.
Iota of Suffering
CURRENCY CONCEPT