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

Concentric circles and the chords between their points form a ring of small star points around a central star. The central star has long and short spikes around a dense knot of lines and small circles. The plotter drew the lines in pen and ballpoint, and I added pencil by hand.

One of two *Nimbus* drawings. Both are built outward from a star at the centre of concentric rings.

Concentric circles and the chords between their points form a ring of small star points around a central star. The central star has long and short spikes around a dense knot of lines and small circles. The plotter drew the lines in pen and ballpoint, and I added pencil by hand.
One of two Nimbus drawings. Both are built outward from a star at the centre of concentric rings.

Entfaltung (Nimbus I)