LESS is an networked generative artwork about subtraction. what remains when a system keeps taking things away.
an idea folds in on itself
visually, LESS uses a simple metaphor: a sheet of paper being folded again and again.
the system simulates folds on a virtual piece of paper. each fold leaves an invisible crease. where creases intersect they create compression points. the artwork only shows those points. every so often, the paper gets unfolded, smoothed out, and folded again.
the final artwork is a record of the paper's history, a trace of all the folds and intersections.
every output is rendered with a strictly limited vocabulary: three unicode block characters.
the color space is just as constrained. every piece is created from the original 16-color CGA palette, the same tiny set of hues early computers had to work with.
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underneath this project is a TokenWorks recursive strategy token. every trade on its uniswap pool pushes a little eth into a contract. over time that pressure is used to buy and burn the token itself.
the collection
on top of that machine sits a collection of nfts. each one is a record of a moment when the system chose to remove a part of itself.
whenever the token buys and burns itself, a short mint window opens. if someone is there they can mint a piece bound to that burn. if nobody is there the burn still happens onchain, it just leaves no visible trace in the collection.
what remains
LESS treats recursion as a way of drawing: the token folds value and supply back into itself, and the images are what you get if you look only at the intersections of that history.
the system takes away. the art shows what remains.