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Mechanical Drawings-
These drawings are created with the T16
Mechanical Pencils.
| Electricity also still evokes, on
an unconscious level, images of that paradoxical figure of
alchemy, Mercurius, and of the elusive vital fluid that transcends
the merely mechanical. Indeed, the strange paradoxes of modern
quantum mechanics and the endless popular speculations on
the role of consciousness in the material world, not to mention
the actual transmutation of metals now possible, seem to be
outward manifestations of the symbols that drove alchemy and
now drive modern physics.
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| -Ernst Benz, The Theology
of Electricity |
At the heart of every project I undertake is an interest in the system.
Whether it is an environment, structure, circuit, schematic, there
is an underlying exchange, and flow, that fascinates me. Current fashion
dictates that to be granted notoriety, one must prove independent
thought, personal vision, and solitary experience. This is but a fabrication
of the truth, as growth and change are collective experiences. Similarly,
no other system of life, or force, can exist without the systems that
surround it.
The series T17 (Mechanical Drawings / Electrical Field Drawings) takes
this idea in the form of rudimentary circuitry. We tend these days
to think of electricity as a linear element to be piped into our houses
much like water, forgetting that both exist much more abundantly as
waves. These drawings are produced by the most simplistic robotic
systems, who’s sole purpose is to express it’s own experience
in the most sophisticated and subtle drawings it can possibly create.
The results are all reminiscent of the fields, or waves, that electricity
most naturally forms. It is, in this sense, a translation of a human-made
electrical structure’s experience back into electricity’s
native language.
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