Machine and Marker by M A Rosner
Machine and Marker is a series of drawings inspired by pen plotter machines, the early computer printers of the 1960s. Pen plotters work by reading digital line drawings and translating them into the computerized movement of a pen across a flat piece of paper, creating clean line drawings. I am intrigued by the simplicity of the line drawings pen plotters produce, however, their simplicity often lends best to utilitarian communication of information–what you see is what you get.
The Machine and Marker series works to challenge the simplicity of line drawings by exploring the line's ability to communicate complex imagery, illusions, and textures. Lines lose their singular identity and converge and intertwine with one another to create something much greater than its part(s).
