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Until It Breaks
was made using
the classic child’s
Spirograph toy. The
artist allowed the
Spirograph to rotate
around the paper in
it’s predetermined
route until the
repeating pressure
of the ballpoint
broke through the
paper’s surface.
Only at this point
was the drawing
considered done.
Both accidental and
controlled, visceral
and classic, the final
image can perhaps
induce the viewer
into a meditative
state or to reflect
on the relativity of
what is stable and
unchangeable.
Massimo
Bartolini
Until It Breaks
2007
Ink on paper
59 × 59 in.
Photo by
Alexander Masters
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