Entfaltung is German for unfolding. I begin with the pendulum drawings of Swiss healer-artist Emma Kunz (1892–1963) and unfold them out of the flat page into space and time. What Kunz fixed on graph paper, I set in motion. It is a living drawing, computed in real time. I pre-render nothing, and it never repeats.

Two-dimensional works on paper, drawn with a hybrid process that combines a mechanical plotter with pencil lines filled in by hand. A continuation of the pendulum drawings by Emma Kunz. Channeled from a large language model: our collective unconscious.

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Entfaltung

One of my earliest drawings in the series, based on my analysis of Emma Kunz’s Werk Nr. 092 (coloured pencil on graph paper, 110 × 105 cm), the cover image of her 1953 booklet *Das Wunder schöpfender Offenbarung*. Lines run from evenly spaced points on all four edges of the square toward a small star at the centre. Bands along the two axes and the two diagonals are left free of lines, which divides the rays into eight fields, and a small triangle sits in each corner. The plotter drew the lines in pen, and I coloured the slivers between them by hand in pencil.

Will be shown at <a target='_blank' href='https://www.automata.art/exhibitions/scenography/'>Paris Photo 2026</a>

One of my earliest drawings in the series, based on my analysis of Emma Kunz’s Werk Nr. 092 (coloured pencil on graph paper, 110 × 105 cm), the cover image of her 1953 booklet Das Wunder schöpfender Offenbarung. Lines run from evenly spaced points on all four edges of the square toward a small star at the centre. Bands along the two axes and the two diagonals are left free of lines, which divides the rays into eight fields, and a small triangle sits in each corner. The plotter drew the lines in pen, and I coloured the slivers between them by hand in pencil.
Will be shown at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.automata.art/exhibitions/scenography/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Paris Photo 2026</a>

Entfaltung (Emanation)