Designer françois xavier saint georges automatic drawing machine similar in essence to the automaton the recent feature length animation Hugo is able by layering to construct complex patterning and tone. The ink drawings fixed to rotary or cyclical outcomes are simple yet through evolution of the 'roto-drawing machine' different and unexpected outcomes may be possible.

What is interesting about this project is the idea of letting go and removing a dictatorship over the work. Such work as this has been more attractive to me since attending Giorgio Saddatti's Transmission lecture. I feel that this work is close to the ideal of a metaphysical natural freedom that I search for in my own practice which is perplexing considering the taxing despotic character of the way I work.