The marks are his.
Rebirth
A generative system built from the paintings.
Follow one composition as it is arranged.
Begin with the paintingsSource paintings
The marks are his.
Over several years, Baylis extracted individual brushstrokes from his panels: more than a thousand marks, digitised at print resolution and organised into the same layered structure the paintings are built in. Rebirth recombines them. The marks are his. What the system takes out of his hands is the relationships between them, the compositional decisions that, on a panel, take six months.
Authorship and release
What remains.
What changes.
Rebirth arranges the relationships between them.
The discovery lies in seeing what his own marks can become beyond his usual compositional decisions.
Arrangement
One composition, ten cumulative layers.
Each view contains everything arranged before it.
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Layer 01 / 10
Ground
The first marks establish the frame.
Layer 01 / 10, Ground -
Layer 02 / 10
Foundation
The bottom layer is added to the frame.
Layer 02 / 10, Foundation -
Layer 03 / 10
Body
Large middle marks accumulate over the earlier layers.
Layer 03 / 10, Body -
Layer 04 / 10
The Deep
The deepest dark marks enter the composition.
Layer 04 / 10, The Deep -
Layer 05 / 10
Shadow
Further dark marks collect across the existing field.
Layer 05 / 10, Shadow -
Layer 06 / 10
First Light
Large bright marks join the arrangement.
Layer 06 / 10, First Light -
Layer 07 / 10
The Weave
Smaller middle marks deepen the accumulation.
Layer 07 / 10, The Weave -
Layer 08 / 10
Grace
A smaller set of marks is added to the composition.
Layer 08 / 10, Grace -
Layer 09 / 10
Sparks
Small bright marks move through the accumulated field.
Layer 09 / 10, Sparks -
Layer 10 / 10
Surface
The top layer completes the arrangement.
Layer 10 / 10, Surface, Rebirth prototype
Composed once. Printed once.
Every work Rebirth makes is composed once and printed once. The pattern that made it is then retired, recorded in a ledger, and never made again.
Each Rebirth print is a signed one-of-a-kind work on paper, framed, and the only impression of its composition that will ever exist.