213 x 280mm, 36 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2025

Hydraulics is a new book of drawings by artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. A continuation from earlier publications (Particles 2010 & Boundaries 2012), this series mirrors various sound compositions with an economy of gesture at its core. Investigative in nature and playful in form, the drawings point to a working process of the artist as a sound maker.

The visual work documents an applied force of the ink or manipulation of sound; a circular motion may indicate the amplitude of a sound wave or the bleeding of ink on the page as a heavy drone. The essence of the mark-making reveals a time and place while acting as grounded connections to reality in an age of the hyper-virtual.

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