Works > Calculations

In 2016, I read James Gleick’s The Information, which describes how 'computers' in the 17th Century were people employed to find answers to long, rote calculations that would be published in books called 'tables.' Others could refer to these tables when they needed the answers to the same calculations, saving them time and labor. I was struck by how much the sciences had relied on these tables, in other words, human labor, rather than on machines like today. This inspired me to create a series of drawings that are calculations, performed by hand and without the use of technology, yet pushed to an extreme where they become tests of discipline and faith. Click on each piece for more information.