Matthew Attard: I Will Follow the Ship

Attard’s signature eye-tracker drawings trace the iconographies and legacies of Malta’s ships and sailors

Using an eye tracker for his drawings, Matthew Attard (born 1987) fuses his digital practice with his interest in Malta’s nautical past, preserved in folklore and ex-voto ship graffiti. In a hyper-technological world of rising sea levels, these humble marks of hope commemorate centuries of human survival.