BigShinyThing

Horvitz writes: “Since 1970, all of my drawings have been made with just one kind of mark. I put the pen on the paper and flick it. The split-second acceleration of the penpoint attenuates the flow of ink so that the mark tapers, then breaks into tiny skips, and then disappears completely. This leaves a straight comet-shaped track about 1-2 cm long. No two marks are exactly the same, but their diversity is strictly limited.”

Horvitz describes his discovery of this technique:

It was like seeing for the first time. Everything was so clear and sharp and tangible. I feel the vast infinity of very small bits of matter — they are all over, for there are no holes in vision, no blanks or left-out portions, and everything is not just a total, but a group of very small individual items, like sand or atoms even… I was so moved by this vividness & clarity that… I knew this vividness would have to be my expressive aim in art…

A few months later, I did a series of drawings inspired by television static — what you see on a TV channel when there’s no signal. I was attracted to this image as uniquely modern, specific to the electronic era. Not coincidentally, it is entirely made of "very small bits." Colored dots, all the same size, filled these TV drawings from edge to edge…

Read more at his site.