![A close-up of a work from Nesbit's "phlatness" series involving a collection of delicate, blue lines, arrows, and numbers, that tangle and congregate towards the upper-left of the image and loosen into more coherent strands on the lower right. Etched onto lithograph paper through a scripted and iterative process.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit00-1-1024x682.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Taiyo Watanabe
Phlatness is a series of drawings that I’ve been producing over the past 5 years. There is a collage of techniques used in the work (analog and digital) with an intent of representation of representation. A hand drawing is produced representing an object and then a digital drawing is produced of the hand drawing instead of the original object. The assembly line of this iterative drawing process is intended to remove or flatten any meaning tied to the original object and allow the representation to move forward and be judged at “face-value”. The Digital drawings are then printed through an analog process of offset lithography where repetition and iteration are used to further enhance the intent of that process. Along with the drawings there is an Abstract Technical description of the “Phlatness Theory” intended to be broken down to its basic terms to understand the judgement behind the work.
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![A contained overview of a work from Nesbit's "phatness" series involving a collection of delicate, parametric black lines, arrows, and numbers that concentrate towards the top right in the shape of a rupturing parabola opening downwards. The background is white.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit01-737x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in
![A contained overview from the series comprised of straight lines of varying shades of grey that radiate from the top left. Some lines are adorned at the ends with perpendicular, smaller lines causing them to resemble rooftop antennas. The background is white and there is ample negative space from the bottom right to the middle right region.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit02-737x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in
![A contained overview from the series composed of fine shades of grey lines and numbers that aggregate towards the lower center](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit03-737x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in
![A swarm of black fine lines that concentrate towards the center left of the canvas and occasionally are entangled with fine cyan lines. The aggregate of lines in certain edges of the overall form blend to become fuzzy](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit04-683x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Jasmine Park
![A close up from the series that show black and blue lines of varying thicknesses with annotations and arrows. Some lines have more distinct curves and contours while others form a contorted grid](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit05-683x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Jasmine Park
![A tangle of blue lines that drawn in immeasurable directions and reiterate over black and grey lines. Some end with arrows.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit06-819x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Jasmine Park
![Vertical beige canvas with a nested rectangular overlay. The overlay starts black with a tint of blue and runs 2/3rds down the overlay. The remaining overlay is visually split and a charcoal-like texture concentrates downwards until fading back to the beige canvas. Where the overlay is split, thin blue lines form an abstract design running upwards towards the darker concentrations of the overlay.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit07-683x1024.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Jasmine Park
![A tilted close-up of fine black lines. At the top left corner, the lines form iterative u-shaped curves that move towards the right of the canvas and end mid-way the image. There is a shallow depth of field tothe image that focus in on these curves and blur out towards the right of the image.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit08-1024x683.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Taiyo Watanabe
![A close-up of fine blue lines concetrated towards the upper left of the photograph and loosen as they move towards the bottom right corner. The lower left and upper right corners are blurred from the shallow depth of field.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit09-1024x682.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Taiyo Watanabe
![A close-up of fine black lines that are closely concentrated towards the upper right of the image. As the extend downwards, the lines loosen and the image becomes out of focus.](http://halt.flatjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/imgNesbit10-1024x683.jpg)
lithograph 22 in x 28 in, Photo by Taiyo Watanabe