This series of generative drawings is inspired by the various technical cruft that can be seen clinging to power poles in the urban environment. Lights, transformers, a bundle of wires, cell antennas. Some of it is recognizable, and some more mysterious. Some poles are sparsely populated while others are densely packed, the wires weighed down like branches laden with strange fruit.

I wrote custom software to create this series of generative drawings, which pulls from a set of pre-drawn components to create dynamic compositions of connected power poles.

The software can be configured to create compositions of different sizes, with varying levels of complexity. Each composition is unique. Since the source components are drawn by hand, the resulting compositions have a handcrafted quality, even though they are generated by a machine.

The output images are generated as vector graphics and then plotted on paper using a pen plotter. The plotter creates a physical artifact of the digital composition, and the imperfections of the plotting process add to the hand-drawn quality of the images.