The README is a version-controlled repository on GitHub. It documents the frameworks, methods, axioms, and accumulated decisions that run through this practice — and everything else linked from this site.
It calls itself “a living, version-controlled pseudo-sketchbook — the personal operating system of André S Clements.” Written in the idiom of a software manual, it models a praxis: a reflexive system for making art, navigating relationships, and operating ethically under constraint.
It is not software. It is not self-help. It is either very helpful or very strange, depending on your tolerance for self-referential systems. It proceeds anyway.
Lens: Parametric Authorship
Parametric Authorship holds that creative work isn’t produced by a sovereign genius but shaped by the parameters it operates within — constraints, affordances, histories, collaborations, refusals. The README documents those parameters explicitly. It says: here are the rules this practice runs on, and here is where they came from.
“Multipartiality: more than one centre, more than one path.”