Summer Sketch Book Entries

The 1,000

I began The 1,000 as an exploration of the process of entropy. Each drawing is a tracing of the previous tracing, and so the degradation propagates. The slight imperfections of the pen generated mutations on the form that then took life themselves and mutated further. As the image fell apart and the number on the bottom left corner continued to rise, I tried to force myself to be in love with each new image that was created. At times, I had myself convinced, but at some point it stopped being about the image and more about the number. I became a machine that only cared about quantity. The number 1,000 became the goal, and the volume validated the mindless, dispassionate, emotionless, and human-less process.

The volume validated the process.