...Brown wanted his Headlands output to have a procedural structure, so he decided on a set number of pages and a stock of objects, images, materials and actions to be chosen by rolls of dice.
He made six stacks of 11 sheets of paper. Each day, he rolled the dice to determine which sheet from which stack to work on first. Each drawing was titled according to its position: "3 -- 10," for example, was the 10th sheet down in the third stack.
Further rolls of the dice dictated which source -- the day's newspaper, an art reproduction, a found object -- would supply an image and which marking tool or kind of mark he would use.
The numbered list of actions and materials still left plenty of room for whim and decision.
After each action, Brown returned the affected drawing to its place in the stack and started the procedure again. Drawings replaced in a stack while still wet with paint sometimes marked their neighbors at random.
The drawings that resulted -- in charcoal and a narrow, muted palette of oil colors -- have family resemblances to each other but differ wildly in their details.
Fragments of imagery -- bones, plant forms, a toilet, human limbs -- wink from the tangles of line scattered in the drawings. ...
-- excerpt from art review by S.F.Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker
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Brad Brown
Textbook Comic Devices, 2001
Publisher: Crown Point Press