‘type: The Unfathomable… Artist – Electronic Version’ [18th August 2020] – by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, dip nib pen using original iron gall ink recipe on A3 [180 gsm] Artist’s paper.
I would like to quote my own personal commentary regarding this new iron gall ink piece:
“Intellectually i’m really happy with this artwork. Only after did i think, ‘that’s why i put the jagged lines in‘ This is my first Basquiat style piece and i can honestly write i had no prior notions to make it a Basquiat in style until it happened đ¨â¤” [bold italics added for emphasis].
The jagged lines top and bottom were added on the 14th August 2020 after I’d finished the central/vertical calligraphy. Initially without the ‘black block ink and multiple lines’ you can see in the artwork photograph above – completed through impromptu ink work.
I literally didn’t know how to proceed with this artwork from thereon. Actually thinking I might leave it as it was, adrift of any further inspiration or ideas.
After drying the piece for a few days I began spontaneously researching electronic circuit board diagrams with avid interest. I’m familiar, decades past, with circuit diagrams through my Dad’s former occupation as a photocopier engineer and his [second generation] electronics expertise.
Electronic magazines featuring television and Hi-Fi circuitry, repair and assembly scattered all over the house. Diagrams with capacitors, LED’s, transistors, LCD’s, transformers etc. Viewing circuit diagrams is always a memorable and pleasant experience to me. I laughed when I saw a multimeter photograph yesterday. My Dad carried one of those around with him quite often.
For me, this artwork is a connection to the ancient and modern past, encapsulated with new hope for the future.
I’d like to share with you the electronic circuit diagram symbols used in my artwork including their relative placements:
fuse [rectangular box with zigzag lines – begins diagonally underneath the word ‘type’];
Anode/Cathode Solar cell Photodiode [line into circle with inner triangle-vertical-line and two ascending diagonally right-to-left down-pointing arrows – underneath the grammatical colon and letter ‘T’];
battery multi-cell [horizontal line with vertical line, vertical single dash line, vertical single dash line longer, vertical line with horizontal line – underneath the space between the words ‘The’ and ‘Unfathomable’];
dome light [horizontally represented domed light bulb with heart light element – underneath letters ‘n, f, a, t, h’];
tri-phase protective and neutral conductor [single line with ‘triple diagonal line’ ‘diagonal line with T line’ and ‘diagonal line with black dotted circle’ intersections – underneath letters ‘m, a, b, l, e . .];
solder bridge [two adjacent lines above-below with two split circles representing the solders – underneath the word ‘type’];
balanced terminals [two adjacent lines with two open circles – underneath and between the words ‘type’ and ‘The’];
electromagnetic shielding [large rectangle, shaped by line dashes – surrounding the word Artist];
constant current source or general transformer or obscured oscillator [line with filled black circle] and also [line with black circle with imperfect unfilled circle overlapping directly below – underneath letters ‘l, e’ ] – please note this latter symbol also has an unknown electronic meaning.
Reasoning is viewer-dependent, wherever conceptual plurality applies to positive and negative space.
The Unfathomable Artist 