# Tracing Harmony

Series

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/works/tracing-harmony

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Tracing Harmony is a series of generative drawings. Each piece is the output of a single algorithm mimicking a harmonograph, a drawing machine that uses pendulums to capture fragments of nature's continuous oscillation. This series is a dance between the physical and digital. A physical machine turned digital only to be retransmitted back into the physical world. The hand of the machine being pulled by imaginary pendulums at random. The hand of the artist guiding the randomness and curating the outputs.

## Images

![Tracing Harmony 10 and 11 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/acfd2998-9220-4ceb-8e91-eb0e706d9000/public)
![Tracing Harmony 8 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/0f7b5c62-2158-466e-83d2-42dfd6873a00/public)
![Tracing Harmony 2 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/bd692eab-d938-4b31-9bdf-69ecfeb02700/public)
![Tracing Harmony 7 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/6fea2eb4-928d-41c0-ed5d-b79cf89c8e00/public)
![Tracing Harmony 17 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/8199cdf6-c392-4da1-4d62-06fd01642700/public)
![Tracing Harmony 13 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/d5995e82-33a2-4bb8-f43f-a75ee8639e00/public)
![Tracing Harmony 1 — Ink on Paper, 24 × 18 in, 2025](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/57e08b3b-7d97-4fde-80bf-81f415e75b00/public)