Put digital text under a microscope, look at the magnified features and philosophise about the revealed images. What do they tell us about structure and what about chaos? Is there space for unstructured or unseen elements? Can humour or anger be detected in them? When code is approached as an artistic theme, how much can we associate ourselves with the result?
In this short series of ink drawings I looked at code as a collection of symbols stripped of their function. They still say something – they entail fragments of language – yet in this form they are useless. The drawings are visual interpretations of code, where the aesthetics weigh towards the human imagery as protest and as poetics.
Ink (black and burnt sienna) on paper, 25 x 25 cm, 2020.
