Mobilomania

When I was commuting to my last job, from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, I found myself spending about three hours on the bus each day with nothing to do. Reading was out of the question, since the shaky movement of the bus gave me motion sickness, so I decided to use that shaking to my advantage and started drawing in my sketchbook with my eyes closed, letting my hand to passively register all the movements of the bus. The results were automatic “maps” of my travels. Sometimes, I would doze off and my hand would trace a straight line instead of the “regular” shaky ones—the closest I ever came to drawing in my sleep!

I named this type of automatic drawing “mobilomania.”