"Diaphragm. This took many hours: the pen passed over the same areas again

and again until the ballpoint began to eat into the paper, leaving a dense,

burnished texture that is wholly specific to the machine — nothing a hand

would make. Ballpoint is an everyday, administrative ink, rarely used for art,

which is part of its appeal here. It is also the last drawing the original plotter

ever made: partway through, the machine "decided" it had died and drove the

pen straight back to the origin at the lower left without raising it — the long

stray diagonal line is that final move. It forced me to buy a new, larger plotter."

Generated through autonomous computational processes and realized as a unique plotter drawing, this work draws on forms found in nature, where intricate structures emerge through simple patterns and rules. The work invites reflection on the parallels between organic growth and computational processes.