The year is 2031.

As one of millions of out-of-work artists, you have found work in a texture mine. Located at old landfill sites, texture mines dig up rubbish and have workers sift for relics or patterns which are yet to appear on the Internet. Here you make use of your aesthetic and cultural intuition to make visual collages of materials or objects from decades past.

These collages are streamed to high-paying influencers all over the world, who have turned to real-time generated neo-abstract textures as a way to stand out. By creating abstract collages from objects or materials which were never uploaded to the internet, the texture mine can offer customers a fleeting moment of online-originality before the artwork is ingested into The Great Enumeration.

Your job is to sift, jumble, reorganise and find new aesthetics for instant dissemination.

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