Description
From Verostko's suite honoring Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), the medieval theologian and composer who organized her prophetic Scivias around twenty-six visions in three parts. Verostko plotted each "vision" as a one-of-a-kind drawing from a shared family of coded procedures: the control points generating the strokes in a sheet govern every pen stroke in that sheet, a "self-similarity" he likened to a genetic marker. The suite — drawn in pigmented inks on rag paper by a pen plotter running his Hodos software, with many sheets enhanced in hand-applied gold leaf — was exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2004; documented versions date from 2001–2004, and this sheet is dated 2010.
Sources: https://history.siggraph.org/artwork/roman-verostko-twenty-six-visions-of-hildegarde/ · https://digitalartmuseum.org/verostko/hildegard.html · https://spalterdigital.com/artworks/229/
Note: the Hildegard series demonstrably existed by 2001–03; this large-format sheet's 2010 date suggests a later plot from the same coded family — unconfirmed, as acquired.
