Mohr's work is an important bridge between handmade manipulations and machine-calculated structures in art. His demonstrated interest in process, language and line texture are revealed in early abstract painted works, prior to his discovery of the computer as a tool for art. This particular drawing is part of Mohr's early algorithmic work phase (1969-72, following an interest in hard edge painting) which emphasized a "formalism" of the software medium: logical and automatic construction of pictures. Typical of his early algorithmic work, this piece links line to language, process and conceptual systems. Mohr calculated the image using a program that he authored in the FORTRAN language. With a choice of different line characteristics, an alphabet of randomly generated elements is created. The concept for this algorithm is to create a visual musical score which defies the progression in time by occasionally turning back on itsefl. Thus at the same time this introduces Mohr's idea of an abstract text or script.

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Artwork courtesy of bitforms gallery NYC