For six decades, eighty-four-year-old Jerry Gretzinger has devoted nearly every day to painting a single map — now spanning over four thousand hand-painted panels of a place that exists only in his imagination. According to Boing Boing, what makes this project unusual isn't just its scale or longevity, but Gretzinger's method: he uses a deck of cards to decide what to paint next, surrendering the act of creation to chance. He doesn't choose the landscape — the cards do. It's an act of patient surrender, where thousands of days of meticulous brushwork are guided not by ego or intention, but by the shuffle of cardboard. A People Make Games documentary explores this decades-spanning collaboration between an artist and randomness.

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