If you’re like me, you looked at this picture and the name “Three-Pendulum Rotary Harmonograph” and felt confused and a little bit threatened. But fear not! Turns out it’s one of those fun ...

When my elder brother and I were kids back in the late 1970’s, our hacker Dad showed us this 1960-61 catalog of the Atlas Lighting Co (later Thorn Lighting) with an interesting graphic design on the ...

A harmonograph will be set up in the gallery throughout the month of May. The drawings in the exhibit were produced using three different machines Fitzpatrick designed: a three pendulum rotary ...

Paul Wainwright creates stunning images on the gigantic harmonograph he constructed in his New Hampshire barn The following contraption is a prototype of a drawing machine that was fashionable in the ...

Callen’s artist practice seeks to serve as an embodiment of an experience in the present moment. The current moment is our only opportunity for experience, poised between memories of the past and ...

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NEWFANE — When New Hampshire artist Don Fitzpatrick was setting up his harmonograph recently at Moore Library a person walked up to him and asked, "Where is the motor?" Fitzpatrick replied, "There is ...