The Drawing Device

Drawing Device a project by Kip Jones, brings the oldest of mark-making skills into the purview of technological control through the use of mechanical devices, such as artists tools, drawing attention to the distancing of hand from paper. Jones' devices are reminders that our culture has already psychologically and visually accepted the shift away from the physical familiarity of handmade lines to technologically- created images and reproductions. The artist has subtly played on cultural needs such as the need to play, the need to interact and to create, and the need to assert our humanness (and control) over machinery for our own ends.

- Linda Rae Dornan

Drawing Machine #4 (detail), metal, 2001