This project centers on a generative drawing tool I developed to explore composition through fluid motion simulations. Built in Processing, the system responds to chance-based inputs and emergent behaviors—allowing lines, shapes, and gestures to be shaped not by the artist’s direct hand, but by a computational choreography of fluid dynamics.

The work draws inspiration from artists like John Cage and Sol LeWitt, whose practices foregrounded rule-based structures, chance operations, and conceptual systems. Rather than treating unpredictability as an obstacle, this tool embraces it as a collaborator—producing drawings that are both controlled and uncontrolled, designed and discovered. Each composition reflects a negotiation between intent and accident, code and motion, echoing longstanding questions about authorship, gesture, and the role of randomness in visual thinking.

Originally featured in a faculty spotlight at Wesleyan University, Embracing Unpredictability continues my ongoing investigation into generative systems, the aesthetics of emergence, and the poetic potential of computational processes in drawing and digital art.