LO-06: Randomness

The project I chose to focus on this week is Tim Knowles’ Civita 24 hour Balloon Drawing. I admire this artwork because of its uniqueness. Knowles’ method of incorporating randomness made his final piece very unconventional but also very simple. To make his drawing, Knowles attached a pen to a helium balloon whose motions were “randomly” generated by the wind movements during the day which drew on a 24 meter long slowly moving paper throughout the day. Although wind movements are not completely random, there was a lot of variability in his final 24-meter long drawing which highlighted the balloon’s “random” movements. Knowles’ artistic sensibilities are manifested in the final piece since, like many of his other artworks, he incorporates nature as an art tool to produce very simple but unique pieces.