Locust
Elizabeth Simonson
American, born 1964
2001
In ink and colored ink on graph paper, Elizabeth Simonson builds a precise, iterative diagram of a rotating, faceted form—using tiny dots and repeating lines to translate calculation and motion into a hand-drawn study.
What grabs you is the delicate, machine-like texture of countless minuscule dots and parallel lines that converge into a ghostly octagonal ring in the upper half of the sheet, punctuated by a single red square and balanced against the pale grid and open white space below.
The work sits between drawing, mapping, and early generative thinking—making visible a process of repetition and rule-based variation that links hand draughtsmanship to systems art and contemporary explorations of time, movement, and measurement.
Medium
Ink and colored ink on graph paper
Dimensions
16 x 11" (40.6 x 27.9 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3110.2005
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