Human Presence

I listened to some painters talking about why they paint. One distinguished painting as relating directly to the presence of humans, as a record of humans in the world, a non-tech record at that. All media reflects the presence of humans -- it is one draw toward making art or writing or theorizing or ..., in general. But the human touch is less transparent in some media than it generally is in painting. It's less transparent in some approaches to painting that smooth out evidence of touch, such as individual brushstrokes.

I wonder the extent to which works comprised of distinct individual marks to make up the whole object (or object's surface), without representation in mind, can occupy a space that could shift the experience toward one absenting human presence as much as reflecting it.

Yes, a person made the marks. A person articulated the modulations. A computer can be programmed to make hundreds, thousands of non-uniform marks that accumulate into a whole object. What is singularly unique about the human hand? There is an immediate connection between the hand and the mind, without the need for a separate human made construct (program) to mediate the two.