Untitled
1967
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary sheet music
1967
graphite
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
You see a tangle of sharp, mechanical shapes drawn in pencil—gears, hooks, and jagged edges pressed together like a broken machine. Fernández made this in 1967, right after leaving Cuba for New York. The drawing feels like a secret code, as if the parts could snap into something familiar but never quite do. The lines are so precise they look almost printed, not hand-drawn. If you like how Fernández turns simple pencil into something strange, try looking up cross-hatching.
