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Re-drawing ex-voto ship graffiti with eye-tracking technology

What is it about?

This is a project that re-interprets historical imagery as a contemporary drawing project. The process consists in the re-drawing of historical ship graffiti with my eye movements while wearing an eye-tracking headset. Eye-tracking data is developed into virtual drawings and consequently pen-plotted onto slabs of globigerina limestone. The project specifically looks at ship graffiti found on the facades of wayside chapels on the Mediterranean island of Malta, where the tradition of etching ships in stone as ex-votos can possibly date back to the 1500s.

Why is it important?

The drawing results of this project bridge historical imagery with contemporary drawing, resulting in a multifaceted interpretation through a play on words while converging historical imagery with contemporary drawing.

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