Principle of Operation

Principle of Operation Principle of Operation is a long-term drawing project built from repeated contact between pencil and paper. The work begins with a simple sensory condition: the friction of graphite moving across a surface. Through duration, pressure, fatigue, sound, and material resistance, each drawing records how the body receives external stimuli and returns them as marks. Variation does not come from composition, but from the body’s changing capacity to repeat. The project unfolds across four yearly phases. In 2026, Iterative Calibration observes how variation emerges within large-format, long-duration graphite drawings. In 2027, Systematic Suppression tightens the process into A4 drawings made through a fixed directional sequence, reducing compositional choice almost entirely. In 2028, Deferred Accumulation introduces a single 800 × 150 cm scroll, worked in daily 4 cm sections and rolled forward so that previous marks remain unseen. In 2029, Dialogue Exchange brings another body into the system: audiences draw while listening to recordings of the work, then exchange drawings with me. Running across all four phases, records of senses_Index functions as a continuous parallel register. These two-hour drawings are scored on the reverse for friction, fatigue, pressure, attention, and other sensory variables. Across the project, control is progressively displaced: first through material resistance, then through suppressed choice, obscured memory, and finally shared authorship.

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