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The Infernal Machine
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  • the infernal machine 1 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 1 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 1 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 2 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 2 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 2 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine detail panel 2 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine detail panel 2 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine detail panel 2 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 3 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 3 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 3 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 3 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 3 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 3 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
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  • the infernal machine 4 detail meditation drawing Ballpoint pan on paperthe infernal machine 4 detail meditation drawing Ballpoint pan on paperthe infernal machine 4 detail meditation drawing Ballpoint pan on paper
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 5 detailThe Infernal Machine - panel 5 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine detail panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine detail panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine detail panel 6 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine - panel 9 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 9 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine - panel 9 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 8 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 8 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 8 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 7 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 7 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 7 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 7 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 7 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 7 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 8 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 8 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 8 Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • the infernal machine 9 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 9 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingthe infernal machine 9 detail Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal Machine Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal Machine Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
  • The Infernal machine on display at the OCAD Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal machine on display at the OCAD Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawingThe Infernal machine on display at the OCAD Ballpoint pan on paper meditation drawing
 

Artist Statement

“The Infernal Machine” is a year and a half contemporary drawing meditation on love, chaos and nothingness. Its roots date back to grade school doodles scattered amongst hundreds of note papers.

Each of the nine pieces in “The Infernal Machine” drawings are mounted on to Masonite boards. When assembled together the drawings form a large rectangle depicting an intense mosaic of non-specific images.

The drawing process was feverish, all encompassing, with ideas and concepts constantly forming, than disappearing under a tide of new ones. At the height of the drawing meditation the conscious mind would become silent. The process of drawing however continued feverishly with my conscious mind no longer trying to grasp at anything. I was simply creating and allowing creation to happen.

Having started with the red panel I soon realized that I wanted to surround it with an additional eight panels drawn in black ballpoint pen. Undaunted by the task at hand I preceded drawing everywhere I went. I always had a rolled up sheet of the panel I was working on with me as I went about my daily business. Present moments, thoughts and surrounding were reduced to lines which I scribbled in various patters and intensities onto the paper building layer upon layer of ballpoint ink. After a year and a half of drawing it all came together to form a unique organic composition.

Since then I have been developing Dodalism which incorporates the meditational aspect to creating work.