Lady Ada Lovelace drawing
I don't usually post shots about my process of printmaking, but here goes.
This is a drawing of Countess, Lady Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - computer), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the engine. More importantly, she (a great communicator, daughter of Lord Byron) was able to understand and explain the workings of the analytical engine and the potential of computing machines. Her comments seem visionary to the modern reader.
She is shown in front of my sketch of one of Babbage's drawings for gears within his machine. Also included are some equations for Bernoulli numbers.
The image of her is inspired by a couple of well-known engravings. This will end up as a lino block, so everything will be reversed, when ultimately I carve and print it.
Lady Ada Lovelace drawing
I don't usually post shots about my process of printmaking, but here goes.
This is a drawing of Countess, Lady Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - computer), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the engine. More importantly, she (a great communicator, daughter of Lord Byron) was able to understand and explain the workings of the analytical engine and the potential of computing machines. Her comments seem visionary to the modern reader.
She is shown in front of my sketch of one of Babbage's drawings for gears within his machine. Also included are some equations for Bernoulli numbers.
The image of her is inspired by a couple of well-known engravings. This will end up as a lino block, so everything will be reversed, when ultimately I carve and print it.