PHOTOGRAPHY
Brenton McGeachie
ARTWORKS
Hidden Persuaders series, 2014
Images of very small things series, 2016
Karesansui 1 & 2, 2016
These drawings explore scale and time through a singular output of pen to paper using a small plotter.
The larger images, based on Japanese karesansui rock gardens, are 3-dimensional scans of inflatable rocks constructed while on a residency in Japan. These are 1:1 scale. The two large drawings, comprised of 35 panels, are made up of 1,513,159 lines, taking 11 days, 13 hours, 23 minutes and 31 seconds for the pen to travel 7.34 km path.
The smaller drawings are all rendered circles, converted from constructed and found images. Each image represents a form that is 1,000-10,000 times magnified. Each dot on the page representing hundreds of the represented image, each image with up to 50,000 dots.