Themes

Historicity

Time-depth, memorial, inheritance, and the presence of the past as explicit subject matter. Includes hauntological registers.

Materiality

Works that deal with their material directly, as distinct from works that merely consist of it. Works whose subject matter is at least partly their medium/material.

Worship

Works with reverence, sacredness, or devotional attention as a structuring mode.

Place

Works which are fundamentally situated in geography, place, region or locale.

Systematization

Works which are made from (or are themselves) operable systems, particularly grids, semantic color, geometrically defined graphics, and scripts.

Mathematical figuration

Translating an idea into a formal mathematical structure and back, or math as a way of visualizing ideas.