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Carry it into the new medium without adapting it; keep every loss, and stop when the whole has crossed.
Print a drawing as embroidery.
Seen in Louis and Celia Zukofsky, Catullus, 1969
Try it on your work
Rebuild the thing you're working on out of whatever is within arm's reach, as literally as you can manage, until every main part has an equivalent. Write three lines: what survived, what was lost, what appeared.
Explain your project to a listener or a recording without using any word from your field, for two minutes. Note the forbidden word you missed most; it is doing hidden work.
Take the logic by which your project is organised and impose it on something unrelated: your day, a shelf, a meal. Where the logic refuses to transfer, the refusal is a fact about the logic, not the shelf.
How it has been used
Carry the thing into another medium without smoothing it: a melody into a drawing, a recipe into a diagram, an argument into gestures. What survives, what dies and what appears are three separate findings. The move forbids adaptation: the losses are the data, so you may not fix them.
Where it leads
Grouped under Change what it is