Plottable Mess

2025

Plottable Mess is a generative art algorithm born from a long, evolving exploration of density, continuity, and control. What began as an experiment in filling space with lines has grown into a complex system capable of generating infinite varieties of hatching-based compositions.

The algorithm’s essence lies in its refusal to leave emptiness, every zone of the scene becomes woven with lines, as if chaos itself was being meticulously organized into form. Each drawing is plottable, translated from code to paper through hours of physical plotting, where I use multiple pens and perfect alignments to preserve the intricate flow that the algorithm produces. Over fifty unique physicals have emerged so far, each one a dialogue between machine precision and human patience.

Conceptually, the lines of Plottable Mess can be seen as threads of thought, crossing, clashing, and resolving into patterns of coherence. They represent the tension between disorder and design, between freedom and control. The result is both a mess and a map, a visual meditation on how structure can arise from noise, and how the act of filling space meticulously and obsessively can mirror the way we try to make sense of the vastness within ourselves.