Kinetic Drawing Number 6 (2009, 4 min) is the sixth in a series of works that explore the digital image over time as a drawing or painting in motion. The piece is based on a pen and ink drawing (farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4719355994_8690e5a6da_o.jpg) digitally altered and processed into the animated work you see here. Much of the what inspires the work is an interest in the ideas behind works such in color field painting, experimental film (and video) works from the late 1950's and 60's, Serialist compositional strategies, and chance operations utilized by artists and composers throughout the early to mid 20th century. The work explores the line between the physical act of seeing and the proclivity of the intellect to interfere with that experience — that our analysis or thoughts of what we are seeing actually usurps the act of seeing itself. It is therefore the idea and not the "thing itself" that we see. The goal is to envelope the viewer in the experience of viewing, where they momentarily are drawn out of themselves and into the experience of the work itself.

The piece was produced by combing two animations, each using notes from a single chord (A minor 7 and C7#11 respectively), and representing each octave using three colors in video — red, green and blue for each octave. The number of iterations for each note was dictated by chance operations by literally rolling dice in order to create a sense of randomness in an attempt at mimicking nature.