Marc Berghaus
Rules & Regulations #3

This piece displays the remnants of an epic battle with chance.  During one day in 2002, I attempted to predict the outcomes of simple random processes- rolling dice, drawing cards, etc.  Whenever the results would differ from my prediction, I would simply destroy that randomizing object:  smash the dice with a hammer, shred the cards, break the coins that didn’t flip correctly, shred the non-linear equations that I was unable to solve (which was all of them).  I would then put those remains into the tiny bottles, and then insert them into my neat, ordered grid.  For one day, I was able to defeat chance.  (The newspaper weather forecasts which disagreed with my own predictions took several more days.)  The eighth bottle is empty; the piece was incomplete when it was first shown, but I have grown to enjoy its unfinished potential.   

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