I make drawings on paper. My drawing process is repetitive, continuous, additive, and driven by pre-determined instructions.
I choose a mark, and repeated it over and over in an interlocking pattern akin to weaving. Each new mark inherits characteristics (or genetics) of nearby marks. Small irregularities grow with each repetition, like mutations rippling through the drawing. Once the quantity of repeated marks exceeds a certain threshold, the marks converge into a single gestalt—like cells forming a living organism.
This conceptual algorithmic approach is a means to limit the frequency of conscious, subjective interventions and influences over the drawing’s own natural, self-determining progression. Under this minimal stewardship, each drawing grows freely and automatically, like a plant in sunlight.
