accidental marbling found in injection-moulded recycled plastic microphone cup in a 1984 Western Electric 2702 (Princess) telephone handset
Tag: serendipity
Broken Pen Girih
Well, I didn’t expect that to happen. I was plotting this simple girih frame when something went wrong, and the plotter slammed the (new-old stock, almost unused … sniff) HP drafting pen into the side of the thick watercolour paper, breaking off the tip.
I didn’t notice the damage, so I restarted the plot, and the above smeary and uncertain lines came out. It’s certainly more organic than a mechanical plot would tend to be …