TR Series – Roid

Already cult objects in their own right, ‘Roid’ presents the Roland TR series of drum machines in a exosphere of frozen space-time fit for suspended micro gravitational idolatry. These graphic portraits, realised in gouache, explore geometrical spatialisation and abstraction in perfectly microtonal colours to invoke the archetypal constructivist aesthetic.

Counter to the utilitarian aim prescribed by the standard exploded view in service manuals, where the innards of mechanisms are revealed to show the relationships between constituent parts, these works celebrate drum machines as space stations and astrionic systems. Aesthetic space merges with cosmic space in the navigation portal of the Cartesian continuum.

TR Series – Roid

TR Series – Roid

TR Series – Roid

TR Series – Roid

TR Series – Roid

While the term ‘exploded view drawing’ originated in the 1940s, and was subsequently defined in 1965 as a “Three-dimensional (isometric) illustration that shows the mating relationships of parts, sub-assemblies, and higher assemblies’, its history goes back much further to fifteenth century notebooks of Marino Taccola [1382–1453]. This type of technical drawing was later perfected by Leonardo da Vinci [1452–1519].

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