Untitled

Untitled

Alice Aycock

1981

pastel

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing shows a mix of strange machines and geometric shapes. On the left, there’s a circular grid with a glowing dot at the center. To the right, a tangle of pipes, wheels, and platforms floats in the air, some with blue circles inside. Lines connect everything, like a puzzle of inventions. The artist labeled each part with letters and short descriptions in the corner. It looks like a dream of how buildings or tools might work—but nothing quite matches real life. Check out pastel to see how artists add color to etchings like this.

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