About

The Artist

Henry Condon is an artist working with procedural drawing and other digital and physical media. This website is his interactive portfolio, digital gallery, and online storefront for his work.

His most recent project, Chirhograms, is the first to be displayed. The work is developed in collections and published on this site. Selected pieces are available as fine-art prints and printed goods, produced on demand by a professional print partner.

Chirhograms are orthogonal line mandalas inspired by the Op Art movement and the brilliant color-work of Richard Anuszkiewicz as well as the stunning gradient explorations of Morgan Echols. The term 'chirhogram' originates from the chi-rho monogram, which is a symbolic ligature from the Christian religion that combines the Greek letters of Chi and Rho from the word 'Christos' (Christ). The line and loop style itself is not new, it has roots in a 'retro' or 'supergraphic' styling, but the chirhogram style in Henry's work enframes the lines and loops to specific rules of spacing and symmetry which distinguish it from the retro predecessors. Even deeper, a similar line and loop style can be traced back 5000 years from ancient India: the 'Kolam' geometric mandala art style. While similar maths underlie both kolams and chirhograms, chirhograms are unique in their focus or preference of elongated line segments between the looped corners.