algorithmic physical penplotter drawings

algorithmic generated pen plotter drawings - Tiago Charters

machine drawings, seeded from 3D models, images, and photographs

Mark-making lines are drawn to mimic the process of hand drawing. Sketches are generated by image segmentation, filtering, shape selection and depiction, relying on a personal and physical understanding of human visual perception.

As children, many of us spent our time making marks, scratches with BIC pens and paper, results that we would later call drawings. We debated the lines and were led by them: they were part of us but strangely independent. We did this for ourselves, out of curiosity and the desire to leave a mark on the world; only much later did we realize that there was an audience for our experiences. From the outside, or after some time, it seemed that our ignorance and lack of coordination limited what we could achieve or do, but the lines between habit and invention, accident and design, did not yet exist. We explored a territory beyond language and the intentions we would learn later as adults when, wishing to recover our childhood expressiveness, we envied that creative freedom.

Already as adults, pen and paper drawings often have the qualification of sketches, or studies, things that are done and then thrown away. They are often strange or regressive, parallel works that are executed in the margins of the supporting paper or main work, or on the sidelines of an activity in which one participates, a work meeting, or on the edge of a notebook, a form of unauthorized escapism, an automatic flight, a necessary distraction that imposes itself and illuminates. Black BIC ballpoint pen on Canson mixmedia 200g paper (210x297mm) 2025 - signed on verso