Roll two dice twice to connect two opposite edges using these steps:

Place a check mark next to a number on each of the opposite edges.
Write the first number you roll next to the checked spot on one of the edges.
Write the second number you roll next to the checked spot on the opposite edge.

Connect the two spots with a pencil line after rolling the dice again.
• If the last number you rolled was an even number, make the line straight.
• If the last number you rolled was an odd number. make the line curved.

Repeat this process until you have connected each of the two pairs of edges at least six times.

Select two, three, four, five, or six colors of markers or crayons.
• Assign each color one of the numbers on one of the dice: 2 red, 3 lavender, and so on.
•The process of connecting the sides with lines will have left the rectangle filled with random empty spaces. Begin at the upper right corner and move across and down, back and forth, selecting one empty space at a time.

Roll one of the dice while each space is selected and color it in with the color assigned to the number you roll. If 2 red and 3 lavender, when you roll 2, color it red, when you roll 3, color it lavender.

When all the spaces are colored in, try to imagine meaning for some of the shapes. You may see boats or ships or faces—or just an abstract design. Feel free to add some fins or sails or an eye or nose.

Only the parts inside the frame are relevant. For this exercise, think of those parts as selected from an enormous swamp of possible parts and set off from the rest of the swamp by the frame. Whatever is said or is not said is caused by the parts inside the borders of the painting and their relationship to each other.