concrete rules and abstract machines

“ When we rode along the roads which moved through the tulip fields I began to understand Mondrian. I always thought him to be an international painter; I found him to be a Dutch painter. It was not the color of the tulips but the density of the sand and earth where the bulbs were planted that reminded me of Mondrian. It was the atmosphere of opacity. The place, the land, the earth was dense opacification. ”