# Keep it, or change one real thing

Foundation Media Arts · Day 67 · optional start

**Invitation:** “Keep this, change a bit, or make something new?”

1. Use an actual available work. If it is missing, make a new wanted part; do not claim a revision to an absent version.
2. Child selects a real feature and keep/change/rest. A coherent page need not contain an error.
3. If changing, make/direct one new feature/position on a second area or reversible broad arrangement. Preserve first work only with the child's permission.
4. Compare genuine before/after traces if both exist. Ask “What did you choose?” Receive preference, a stated purpose or deliberate experiment; actual reader feedback is separately attributed only if it really exists.
5. Child chooses one/both/neither or later. Note exact changed/unchanged feature and actual operator, not “improved” by assumption.

**A · Change an actual feature:** Choose and make/direct one change to an actual image, space or optional word feature. Compare genuine traces only when both exist; keep either/both/neither.

**B · Keep now, make another trial:** Keep the current work without inventing an error, then optionally create a genuinely new trial on another area. A new trial does not prove improvement; describe operator and actual differences.

**C · Change the form:** Choose a different page form/arrangement for actual own features, make/direct it or leave it planned. Literal before/current comparison is available only if both traces survive; keeping the old form is valid.

**Notice/next:** if a comparison is not observable, offer a new two-version trial next time rather than reconstructing a fictional earlier work. No forced improvement.

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