Take me to your Leader by Henry Lees Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Hand-Drawn with Gears and Pigment Inks Dimensions: 16.5 x 26.5 cm Year: 2025 Price: $300.00 USD Status: available This work explores the possible emergent interactions of multiple gear paths along a moving straight rail system. Filling in voids created within these emergent moirés reveals a visitor. Why collect this work?A regimented field of black curves produces a fleeting figure at its centre, making perception itself the work’s subject: pattern becomes presence without fully surrendering its abstraction. The catalogue profile describes Henry Lees as using gears and semi-autonomous systems for generative drawing. That practice clarifies why authorship here lies partly in setting a rule and partly in deciding how its results are developed.In the photograph, horizontal waves compress into a tall rectangle while white, diamond-like gaps pulse across the black field. Around the midpoint, several interruptions suggest eyes and a mouth, a reading encouraged by the title.The documented medium is pigment ink drawn by hand with gears. Repeated gear paths can sustain precise recurrence, while selective filling, identified in the catalogue description, allows the emerging moiré to shift toward figuration.Encountering this 2025 work alongside generative abstraction or portraiture would sharpen a specific question: how little alteration a repeated system needs before viewers begin to recognise a face. About the ArtistHenry Lees Henry Lees is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Leicester, GB. Nationality: British Hand-crafted generative art
