sitelen

sitelen are depictions, such as images or symbols. A painting or a photograph are both sitelen. It's also common to see sitelen used to describe a symbol in a writing system. The letter Q and the maya glyph for b'alam (jaguar) are both sitelen. Even three dimensional objects can be sitelen, like a scale model of a boat of a model of architecture in a modern art museum. sitelen is usually used for things that were created, but these don't need to be organized. A random scribble is still a sitelen even though it doesn't necessarily represent anything. pure random noise has the potential to be a sitelen too, but doing so will likely frame the noise as having some sort of order to it. perhaps it was chosen? maybe it's being used for something? maybe it's a mistake? explore sitelen!

Ask yourself: is static a type of sitelen? When does randomness become something we can see as made with intent? Must we name something for it to have meaning to us? If nobody looks at a picture, is it still a sitelen?