Nous Vous / Drawing Machine

The machine itself is difficult to describe. “It works the way a printer does,” says Nic. “A square canvas with a bar going from left or right, a bit like an Etch A Sketch with three handles.” The drawing implements are each attached to the bar, moved with pieces of string left, right and up or down. A bike lever is then used as a trigger to take the pen off and on the paper. “It’s weird because you’re never doing a drawing motion, you’re pulling at a piece of string. It’s not even like you have three hands on one pencil, you have three hands on an object controlling the pencil.” For the construction to work Will, Jay and Nic would have to direct each other constantly. “It’s like trying to tell somebody exactly what you’re thinking for four hours,” elaborates Nic. “Because there’s three of us, we got better at it, but at the beginning we didn’t talk that much and soon learned you have to talk all the time. If you don’t talk about every little thing, you can forget that someone is going from left to right and you’re not, for instance.”

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