Liz Melchor
Liz Melchor is a visual artist who blends precision with unpredictability. When she first encountered a pen plotter, she was drawn to the challenge it posed: how could she use a precise and predictable machine to produce the surprises that drive her art? Her pen plot drawings explore layers and materials, embracing errors, mistakes, and glitches—traces of the perfect machine being imperfect. Liz is obsessed with pushing these machines to their limit to exploit these glitches.
In this chat, Liz talks about her first exposure to pen plotters, the different techniques she employs to manipulate drawing machines, and the importance of being surprised by your own work.
To learn more about Liz’s mail art and accompanying film by Viola Yip, go here.
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Show Notes
Learn more about Liz's work
See Liz's mail art, Call and Response
One of Liz's responses to criticism of "machine-made" art
See the pen plotter making Call and Response
Some of Liz's other mail art pieces
