My printmaking professor really asked me be more responsive to what I have already made. Sometimes planning could only go so far, and we need to learn how to respond to the facts already laid in front of us.
Same with prototyping, I guess. We step one foot forward, and make one step at a time, and each step is a direct response to the previous step. If we keep taking the most obvious step, the result should be pretty good. This sounds like a pretty algorithm for optimizing for a good outcome, maybe trying to get to the best outcome.
I should look into the algorithms of life book to see what other computer scientists say. I feel like life is about a search algorithm for finding the optimal route without getting tricked by the local maximum.
Yet life is not a search algorithm… the context life operates in is far more complex than an algorithm. I am not sure what I am trying to say here, but I think small tests in printmaking could help me find a better route than just blindly going in.
Baby Sequoia 
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