Made in PC Paintbrush in 1987, the work extends Mullican’s painterly language of repeated marks into the illuminated screen.
Provenance
Posthumous edition released by Feral File in collaboration with the Estate of Lee Mullican, 23 March 2023.
01 / 01Lee Mullican, LMSP7.PCX, 1987; NFT edition 2023. Published display image.
- Medium
- Digital drawing
- Materials & process
- Created in PC Paintbrush in 1987 and originally saved as a PCX image. Published as a fixed JPEG image with a Tezos NFT in 2023.
- Dimensions
- Published display image: 401 × 254 pixels; variable digital display.
- Edition
- Edition 15 of 20. Released by Feral File on 23 March 2023.
The contrast recalls the relationship between individual striations and broad color fields in Mullican’s painting, translated here into the hard edges and saturated colors of a digital drawing.
LMSP7.PCX was made in 1987 in PC Paintbrush and retains its original filename as its title. It was released by Feral File in 2023 as part of LeeMullican.PCX. The collected token is edition 15 of 20.
The work is a fixed image. Feral File’s collector package pairs the surviving PCX file with a scan of a 35mm slide that Mullican made by photographing the computer screen. The digital file and photograph document two ways in which he preserved the same experiment.