Roman Verostko and Alice Wagstaff Legacy Collections
Made/Created
Artist
Roman Verostko
Date made
1999
General Notes
Note
The title of this drawing records its origin. The word “apocalypse” derives from the Greek for a “lifting of the veil”; in Christianity, the word evokes “revelation” or a foretelling of the future. For Verostko, the “exhilarating wonderment” of successfully executing a generative drawing using an electronic scribe in his Minneapolis studio overlooking Diamond Lake felt like a revelation—a sense that “we were on the threshold of a new age.” The artist foresaw that “This wave would take us far beyond accounting and word processing.”
