Cesar Delgado

Build a Friend / Bury a Friend

2023

A semi-generative instruction manual in which human figures and abstract forms intersect with narratives of lost friendships. The website generates pages from a set of predefined templates, images, and texts, randomly varying elements such as color, position, scale, quantity, and duration. Each reading produces a different sequence of instructions. Because the two pages change independently, their relationship unfolds through an asymmetrical chronology, allowing chance to determine the pacing, composition, and narrative of each iteration.