His wall drawing, entitled «Present Frequencies,» includes trucks, monsters, Bedouins, porno, birds, and models all knit together by diagrammatic drawings of what appear to be molecular life forms. (brooklynrail.org)
Multiple readings can be inferred depending on the artist's presentation within a particular context: the disc can appear as a watermill, a comma, or a buzz - saw blade; the cone as a whirlpool, an arrow, or the top of a skyscraper; an Adirondack chair, upended and suspended in space, takes on the form of a constellation through a superimposed pattern of diagrammatic lines. (fac.umass.edu)
The exhibition began with diagrammatic works from 1981, when in a small room in Kings Cross, London, Gormley made his first drawings in black oil paint and charcoal, pinning the paper to the wall. (antonygormley.com)