Anatomy of a 31-hour plot

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Loom is the biggest piece the machine has made, and the first to use all five pens. A plot that long is less like printing and more like tending a kiln.

Day one: the warp

The blue and violet warp layers go down first — 1,400 strokes, each one running the full 122 cm height of the sheet. Nothing dramatic happens. That's the goal. Drama at hour three means a ruined sheet at hour thirty.

Day two and three: the weft

The weave order was solved in software before the pen ever moved: no wet stroke may cross another within its cure window. Watching it run, the machine appears to skip around the sheet at random. It isn't. It's threading.

Day four: the part where I don't breathe

The lime layer is last because lime is the least forgiving — every flaw underneath shows through it. The final stroke finished at 2:14 a.m. I have a photo of the pen lifting off the paper. It is, objectively, a photo of nothing. It's my favorite photo of the year.