I was looking at a short school bus with three windows with three decals applied beneath. I think it was "Quality", "Bus", "Corp" or something like that. And I was looking to see how they had aligned the decals under the windows. Left-aligned on each one? Left, center, middle?

It wasn't clear to me (I never made a full determination). But I enjoyed thinking about it and I was thinking about what I enjoyed about thinking about it: trying to inhabit the person who put them there and what their logic was and a little bit about what they're expressing or what they like with these choices. I can imagine making my own choices and being satisfied with them -- I can imagine someone else being satisfied with their ability to make these small, contained, but definitive choices.

Of course this is partly in the context of AI. And I thought - that's what you feel less of in AI art - the person wanting to make choices - though it's still there depending on the exact process. I thought maybe choices are the key to what makes art and what makes art interesting - then I remember that is what the Ted Chiang AI Art essay goes into.

It's good to have art defined as choices by the artist, even if that isn't a full or precise definition. It feels like a solid piece of one.