Diamond Lake Apocalypse: Canon I

Art

Verostko Center for the Arts

Name/Title

Diamond Lake Apocalypse: Canon I

Entry/Object ID

2024.1.30

Artwork Details

Series

Diamond Lake Apocalypse

Collection

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.”

Created By

jeffery.martin@stvincent.edu

Create Date

February 19, 2026

Updated By

jeffery.martin@stvincent.edu

Update Date

February 19, 2026