Origins
Below are examples of my work from 1993 to ’94
At the time I was interested in movement, specifically in capturing real movement on paper
I began with a vessel of paint suspended from a fixed point: a small aperture allowed paint to flow onto the paper in a fluid line.
I then had the idea of introducing a weight between the fixed point and the vessel: the vessel was now suspended from a moving point which followed an elliptical path. Although I did not know it at the time, this is the fundamental principle of the twin-elliptic harmonograph.
Coherent Patterns
From what began as an incoherent, tangled line, I was now able to produce coherent patterns which exhibited rotational symmetry: I used these rudimentary harmonograms for my printmaking work.
