Among modern artists I conceptually identify with Jackson Pollack - not that I'm a particular fan of his visual style, but because he always identified himself as a painter, even though a lot of the time his brush never hit the canvas.

There's something in that disconnect - not using a brush or tool in traditional methods.

Pollock might argue that it's the process of absrtraction that's dynamic, not the end result, which in his case is a static painting. In my own work, the end result is never static: by making room for as many anomalies as possible, every composition generated by the programs we write is unique to itself.

I'll program the 'brushes', the 'paints', the 'strokes', the 'rules', and the 'boundaries'. However it is the software that creates the compositions - the programs draw themselves. I am in a constant state of surprise and discovery, because the program may structure compositions that I many never have thought of to execute or might take me hours to create mentally.