Marais, Paris
Sarah Meyohas
Millionfold
PactOver the past year, Meyohas has been developing a pastel plotter—an inherently contradictory combination of messy, nostalgic pastels and the machine precision of plotters. This setup allows for the creation of pastel drawings with up to 1 million vectors and an equal distribution of up to 130 colors, achieving a degree of visual complexity never before achieved with this tool in its roughly 70-year existence, and ensuring that each hue’s tonality is mathematically balanced. Her primary interest in working with plotters is their historical reliance on «low entropy» mediums, such as pens, which align with the precise nature of a drawing machine (as seen in commercial pen plotters like AxiDraw). These implements don’t require blending, making them perfect for straightforward, predictable mark-making. In contrast, pastels and paints are «high entropy» mediums, demanding intricate blending, nuanced mark-making, and transparency. They are inherently unpredictable, reacting dynamically with other media and the drawing surface.