Blue Haze Drawing

Geometric curving blue and black ink lines create a minimalist circle drawing with a central open core. The continuous lines are in the form of an epitrochoid, each line has 32 cusps at the interior of the circle shape. The circle is approximately 26 inches in diameter. From a distance the lines blend into a blue hazy optical appearance. Pin holes are in the paper as pins hold down my drawing machinations. Mary Wagner, "Blue Haze", 30x30 inches, pigment ink pen on Strathmore acid-free 100 lb. bristol board. I make machines to help me make drawings… gears moving inside gears help guide my pen. The gears are necessary to draw the fluid curving lines of my drawings. Complex and intricate art ranging from simplistic modern minimalism drawings to chaotic abstract artworks. Math is pervasive throughout my work, omnipresent, though also beside the point. My pen maps the motion of a mechanical matrix. Equations could perform a similar task... and describe similar forms on a Euclidean plane. Thus my pet name for my art, Parametric Drawing. So the wheel turns while I draw at the intersection of abstraction and some other kind of abstraction.