Aleatoricism:

(n) Composition depending upon chance, random accident, or highly improvisational execution.

Sometimes art happens by chance, without any sort of mental planning. This term seemed pretty appropriate for today's post. Many years ago my mom intended to cast my Dad's high school ring to a mold, so she could make another ring out of it. It stopped melting much earlier than planned (cheap gold), and morphed into this little shape. Kinda looks like dried up chewing gum.

It reminds me of this very aleatoric incident that happened when I was trying to scan a book report on A Separate Peace back in middle school. Instead of scanning the page like normal, it dragged out one sentence over three pages, with only a few legible words left on the last page: "send them back to happy feeling." Veerrry cryptic. Especially considering the quality of work produced by my pubertal mind on the other side. ("Although Leper tries to form a bond or connection to Gene through his stories, Gene rejects the actions, making Leper's attempted release futile.") What??