Pathway Series. 29" by 23", 2000. Algorithmic pen and ink drawing on paper with 2 gold leaf elements.
In this work the "all-over" distributions are linear random walks with numerous iterations. The text-like inscription is an algorithmically generated visual label bordered on either side with a gold leaf enhancement.
La serie “Pathway” se compone de recorridos lineares casualmente distribuidos en la superficie del papel y han sido creados con uno de mis primeros software. Prototipos de estos procedimientos se pueden encontrar en ciertos trabajos de los dadaístas y de los surrealistas.
This drawing was achieved with routines used in the artist's earliest pen plotted drawings. The procedures grew from his Magic Hand of Chance (1982-85), a work that drew animated linear sequences on a monitor. Prototypes of these software procedures may be found in forms of automatism practiced by some dada artists and surrealists in the early 1920's. "Automatic" writing and drawing sought to explore unconscious regions of human experience using spontaneous or non-rational methods as in making a thoughtless "doodle".