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Accumulate

Keep adding; never select.

Darboven: page after page of numbers, none more important than another.

Seen in Hanne Darboven, Six Books on 1968, 1968

Try it on your work

With your hands

Choose one small addition you can make to a growing collection (one object, one mark, one item) and add one every fixed interval. Stop at fifty, or when the collection changes character; note which came first.

In words

Add one sentence to a running text every time a fixed trigger occurs: each time you sit down, each time someone interrupts. No editing. At the end of the day, read it once, start to finish.

In the process

Add one new instance to your project under the same rule each day (one variant, one case, one example), changing nothing else, for ten days. What the tenth shows that the first didn't is the yield.

How it has been used

Add one thing at a time under one rule, and don't edit: a photo a day, a line per visit, a mark per person. Darboven filled page after page of dates for years, judging none of them. The move forbids curating as you go: the pile only tells the truth if nothing was removed from it.

Where it leads

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