Trip0 140

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Pablo Azócar

2024

Plotter Drawing

16.5"x23.25"

Description

Pablo Azócar’s Trip0 series, initiated in early 2023, revisits the legacy of pen plotter drawing through a rigorously contemporary, system-based approach. Using an Axidraw SE/A1 plotter, Azócar programs algorithms—typically in Processing or p5.js—to generate layered configurations of circles that vary in scale, density, and color. These instructions are then executed mechanically with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush pens and Dr. Ph. Martin’s India Ink on mixed media paper, producing precise yet subtly irregular accumulations of line.

Across the series, circles expand, contract, and overlap, building fields that appear orderly from a distance but resolve into complex interference patterns up close. Ink saturation and slight bleeding introduce material variation within the otherwise controlled geometry, emphasizing the tension between digital instruction and physical execution. Structured like a system yet experienced as a shifting visual field, Trip0 explores how repetition and incremental change can generate density, depth, and perceptual instability from a single elementary form.