Geese

DR. BILL KOLOMYJEC (B. 1947)
Geese
(i)
print on paper
paper: 13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.3 cm.)
artwork: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 35.5 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of four and accompanied by a Bitcoin Ordinal.

(ii)
Inscription 72,540,800
Inscription ID: 350c335455a93002200f82ab2034b525da6eac151bb551c674a3becd6cf1224ei8
Sat Number: 79,086,231,824,524
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The artist

Dating back to approximately 1975, the plotter drawing Geese presents a dynamic arrangement of a hand-digitized goose figure. This figure belongs to a set of early representational images, also including Frog, Fat Cat, and Elephant, that served as interchangeable elements in the artist's nascent works. Here, the computer orchestrates a flock of geese across the drawing surface by generating an array of translation coordinates for each instance. Their orientation is controlled by a mathematical function, devised by Christopher Scussel, which assigns a unique rotation angle to each goose, profoundly influencing the image's overall rhythm and pattern. This particular iteration emerged from a series of generative experiments, ultimately selected by the artist, demonstrating an early interplay between computational randomness and artistic intention.