Angles Morts

Tract

Swath

Built from a highly granular grid of short connecting line segments. Its starting point is Vera Molnár's series <em>Interruptions</em> (begun in the late 1960s), one of the foundational works of generative art, in which a regular field of line segments is disturbed by controlled randomness so that order and disorder hold each other in tension. <em>Sediment</em> takes up Molnár's grid and adds one rule: when neighbouring segments touch, they form a group, and each group is assigned a shared colour from a predefined palette. These colour-bound groups are what the plotter draws, and they accumulate as strata, in the geological sense: one group laid down over another, so that the flat surface is in fact a sequence of layers. The plotter itself is an unpredictable mechanical device: as it draws, it introduces its own texture of aberrations such as slight slips, pressure variations, and pens wearing out, that no part of the algorithm specifies. This unpredictability returns an organic quality to the image, loosening the exactness of the grid into something closer to a natural surface.

Sediment

Plateaux (layered)

Derelic

Ascent

Unlike a digital printer, a plotter moves around the drawing area in all directions, lifting and releasing its pen to draw lines. In this particular drawing, for some black lines, I decided to leave the pen on the paper and not lift it when it moved to another location. This created unpredictable in-between "threads", reminiscent of the backside of traditional embroidery.

Embroidery

The probability of downward diagonal streams increases towards the bottom side of the drawing, creating the impression of curvature, as if hovering a planet.

Atlas

Current

Pression des pairs

Girl/Boy Song

Vermis

Fait Divers

Rapture

Divide

Vapour

Helmgras

Printemps

Pineal

Peaking

Drift

Hail

Mold

Shroud

Probabilities transition gradually based on the coordinates within the canvas (x/y).

Poles

Valley

Symmetrical Overdub

Breeze

Weaving (square)

Ridge

Coral

Scene

Cuneiform

Cliff

Weaving

Ongoing series of plotter drawings on paper and PVC. Premiered in the exhibition <a href='https://harm.work/exhibition/angles-morts/all'>Angles Morts</a>.

Cloud Writings