Case Studies

This chronicle is organized around a single watershed: October 2018. That month marks the moment when sustained theoretical book-writing became the primary creative mode — the transition from a practitioner identity to a theorist identity.

In A Chronicle of Revisiting–Rebuilding Practice (September 2025 – March 2026), a series of RR practices is organized around a single watershed: October 2018. December 2025 marks a new watershed in my creative life.

... taking Revisiting–Rebuilding as the starting weave-point — the Theme — and then asking what larger theoretical context surrounds it.

A Meta-Analysis of How Theories Come to Be and How They Are Presented

The expansion proposed here — from self-referential to other-directed RR practice — opens the theme of Revisiting and Rebuilding: A Strategy for Creative Identity Development onto the social space of Self-Other relations that is foundational to the Agency Cascade model from which it derives.

When a creator returns to earlier work and rebuilds it from a more developed standpoint, they are not just producing a better theory. They are enacting a relationship between their past self and their present self — a diachronic Self-Other structure that drives the Transformation of Self.

The 2015 deck was a Curation act...., and one of its compressed components could be extracted and independently rebuilt (the Significant Themes R-R).

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Oliver Ding's LARGE Method as a second case study, tracing its 8-year trajectory from 2018 to 2026.

A trip as a living theoretical model