I recently completed a drawing which was more of a thought rather than a drawing.
I made a thought experiment to figure exactly what my relationship with the machine is and has been. I list in my head the instances where I have employed the machine, in what capacity, for how long, why, I basically asked myself a series of questions.
Surprisingly I came up with the conclusion that I have enjoyed long and symbiotic relationship with the machine, aka the computer, unlike any other. The machine has been with me the longest of any other relationships. Of course the actual hardware has been changing over the years but I have always had a machine at hand in my work as both a commercial and fine artist, even as a drawer and a painter. Also as a writer and a poet, thinker and tinkerer. I love tinkering with the machine, a less result driven process than the Rapid prototyping we used in the Silicon Valley. Rapid prototyping is the process we employ in commercial work usually to generate multiple results fast, and to gradually improve on the result until a satisfactory or flaw-free result is achieved.