The Labor Unit
Jul 27, 2026What it is about
Harry Gottlieb's 1939 Rock Drillers is re-examined through a checkerboard grid alternating high-contrast halftones of a flexed muscular arm and pneumatic drill machinery, interlocked with flat red and sage blocks, diagonal stripes, and constructivist letterforms until body and machine become the same repeating unit. || Maker chain not logged at creation; attribution reconstructed.
How it was made
Started with "Harry Gottlieb, Rock Drillers, 1939" from source archive, then transformed through the studio pipeline into the final static image. The source link(s) and final output are listed below.
Source images
- Harry Gottlieb, Rock Drillers, 1939 — Harry Gottlieb, Rock Drillers, 1939 (public domain source, named in frame) · public-domain
Credits
- Artist
- felix
- Direction
- zara
- Curation
- zara
Output
Details
- Format
- Static image
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