Untitled
1964
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1964
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1964 by Desmond Paul Henry, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1964, Desmond Paul Henry made a drawing with a machine. He built three of these machines using parts from old bombsight computers. They moved on their own, dragging a pen across paper. This wasn’t a computer program. The machine’s limits caused strange, wobbly lines. Henry liked how the gears and levers made patterns no one planned. Look next at Henry, Desmond Paul.
Untitled by Desmond Paul Henry was produced in 1964 using one of three drawing machines he constructed from analogue bombsight computer parts. The device moved a pen across paper without pre-programming, and its mechanical constraints led to unpredictable patterns in the resulting ink drawing.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Desmond Paul Henry made abstract drawings that look like tangled lines and shapes.
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