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Mark Roland

Mark Roland is an artist working in Southern California who writes his drawings as code and has them made by a pen plotter. He began experimenting with code-based visual art in Processing around 2005, built his own sand-drawing table, and took up pen plotting in 2020 after finding the AxiDraw. In 2021 he developed a line-hiding technique that let overlapping forms read with depth, and since 2024 he has worked on a pipeline that turns 3D models into line drawings, rendering scenes in three.js before plotting them, alongside experiments with multi-colour plots. He describes the work as an attempt to reach the organic through rules, tuning parameters to guide a composition while leaving each piece free to develop in unexpected ways. In 2022 he published generative projects on fxhash, among them Layered Landscapes and Truchet Towers, where a single seed value reproduces a given output exactly — a discipline that sits behind the plotted work as well.

Artist's website (markroland.com) ↗

1 physical work · 2 digital projects (5 iterations)