See the Beautiful Sea XI

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Margot Lovejoy

1980 (circa)

Silkscreen
2/10
15"x 11.125"

Description

These prints belong to Lovejoy’s See the Beautiful Sea series, in which she deconstructed a single seascape into arrays of short, colored strokes that function like informational marks. Inspired by weather-satellite imagery and computer printouts, she sought to “take apart reality” into abstract patterns and then reconstruct it as a scene, revealing how data-like symbols can encode the underlying structures of the natural world.

In XXIV, the strokes are organized into orderly vertical stripes, capped by a band of streaked color that suggests a horizon or a cloud layer. In XI, the image appears crumpled like paper, its folds and creases introducing depth and a tactile sense of handmade intervention. Together, the works test how repeated marks—reminiscent of line-printer output—can oscillate between abstract data pattern and evocative seascape, anticipating Lovejoy’s later explorations of computer-generated views of the world.