Oblique Strategies

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping3 Dice Set with Bag - 19mm Black Dice - Engraved One of Brian Eno’s most interesting projects is a mid-1970s collaboration with the German composer and painter Peter Schmidt, who had just finished a set of 64 drawings based on the I Ching — the same ancient Chinese text that so inspired John Cage. Eno and Schmidt created a series of art instructions titled Oblique Strategies. The project consisted of a set of 115 white cards with simple black text in a deck subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas. Though a conceptual art project, the cards were essentially a practical tool for generating ideas, breaking through creative block, and breaking free of stale thought patterns. It is not clear from any sources whether the cards were explicitly intended to be oracular at the outset - that is, whether or not Peter Schmidt and Eno necessarily saw them exclusively as a "single instruction/single response" kind of "game". The intro