An artist in a sense does not differentiate experience into objects. Everything is a field or maze, and you get that maze, serially, in the salt mine in that one goes from point to point. The seriality bifurcates: some paths go somewhere, some don’t. You just follow and what you’re left with is like a network or a series of points, and then these points can then be built in conceptual structures.
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from Fragments of a Conversation by Robert Smithson from The Writings of Robert Smithson edited by Nancy Holt
I want to come back to this quote and write about the relation of this concept to one prevalent in emergence theory: langton’s ant
