This article is in the form of hypertext, a non-linear genre that takes advantage of the Internet's potentialities. I wrote this article to demonstrate how free-ranging contemplation of various ideas, within an artificially strict scope, can reinforce a unifying pattern. As an artist, I then take this pattern, this abstraction, and weave a form to clothe it.

Each page in this essay is marked with a glass bead. Links outside the scope of the essay are marked with this bead:

The complete set of pages make up a Glass Bead Game:

Addressing moral foundations for making and viewing art.