Harold Cohen

Created in 1987, Untitled is a key work from Harold Cohen’s pivotal Drawing Machine period.
Belonging to the Jungle Drawings series, a subset of the broader Eden series, this work is particularly
notable for its rarity — there were very few Jungle Drawings created in colour and even less translated
into large scale paintings.

By the late 1980s, AARON had entered its fourth developmental phase, in which human figures
were constructed through a three-dimensional knowledge base embedded within the programme.
This body of work marked a significant evolution in Cohen’s practice, generating increasingly
complex compositions that combined human figures with the dense foliage motifs that had
appeared in his work since the early 80s.

Using AARON, Cohen generated forms algorithmically within a sophisticated spatial system,
resulting in dramatically posed figures emerging from intricate jungle-like environments. The
plant forms were produced through coded morphological rules governing branching structures,
leaf clustering, and scale relationships. The energy and rhythmic complexity of the composition
demonstrate Cohen’s sustained investigation into how computational systems could both emulate
and extend artistic expression.

Works from this series are held in major institutional collections, including the Victoria and
Albert Museum and the Thoma Foundation.