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Green Echo by Jeff Elrod. 35 EDITION SIZE. 500.00 (USD) PRICE. THIS ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT IS A SIGNED LIMITED EDITION AND COMES WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. FRAMING OPTIONS ARE WHITE OR BLACK PAINTED WOOD, 3/4" WIDE FLAT FACE FRAME 1" DEEP. PRINT INFO. Green Echo is a print edition based on the artist’s ongoing “dream machine” drawing project, consisting of hundreds of computer-generated drawings created in homage to the exchange between artist and poet Brion Gysin (1916–1986) and writer William S. Burroughs (1914–1997). The dream machine, was a device created by Ian Somerville in the late 1950s that uses oscillating light frequencies to stimulate the optical nerves while the viewer’s eyes are closed. Evoking the hallucinatory effects intended by Gysin’s machine, Elrod processes his original drawing into blurred images to create visual fields that resist coherence. Elrod began painting abstractions of video game imagery in the early 1990s before using computers, starting in 1997, to facilitate paintings through a technique he calls “frictionless drawing.” Elrod aligns his work with the long history of painting and abstraction.