Emily Edelman

In Facility, the artist’s own handwriting is the raw material. Each stroke has been sampled, traced, and then coded before becoming the focus of an algorithm that retains every letter’s structure while layering and distorting their ratios with such drama that the overall effect becomes an illegible texture. Still, the loops of lines and slight forward slant maintain the impression of handmade script.

The final manifestation of each piece is a pen plotted work, taking the lines full circle from handheld pen, to computer, to computer held pen performing the act of a hand. If the starting point is handwriting, and the end result is pen on paper, what constitutes “handmade” becomes ambiguous.

In the field of study that says our unique handwriting is a direct signature of our unique minds, a slight forward slant marks a brain caught between logic and creativity. Facility's script lines capture this tension, enabling the rigorous process of registering every bend and corner of each handmade letter into a system that takes this piece of humanity and codifies it—not for communication, but to capture and extend the unspoken expression of mind on paper. Each piece holds a trace of human intention, creating works that feel simultaneously familiar and abstract, intimate and distant.