Drawn, not printed.
We believe a machine can make art. Not by simulating it, but by performing it. A pen plotter doesn't reproduce an image. It draws one. The distinction matters.
Every PlotFlow edition begins as a vector drawing, rebuilt from reference, path by path, for the AxiDraw to trace in ink. What the machine draws is what the machine drew: a physical record of movement through space and time.
The medium itself is honest. Staedtler Triplus 0.3mm fineliner on Strathmore 300 Bristol. Ink flows at a rate determined by gravity, temperature, humidity, and the speed of the carriage. No two runs are identical, even from the same path data. Minor variation in line weight, ink saturation, and pen behavior is a feature of the process. Never a flaw.
We don't print. We don't reproduce. We plot. Each piece is drawn once, for one person, signed, and numbered. When an edition sells out, it is retired. The path data remains, but the physical run is finished.
PlotFlow exists at the intersection of precision engineering and analog craft. The machine is the tool. The ink is the proof.
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Drawn by machine.