Christian Skagen is a Norwegian visual artist working with drawing as constructed, meditative system.
This site functions as a public selection of numbered drawings.
Most drawings consist of linear fields drawn with a fountain pen and ruler.
The number stamp on each drawing contains two pieces of information:
drawing number (xxxx00000000)
date (0000xxxxxx)
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Christian Skagen is a Norwegian visual artist working with systematic, meditative ink drawing. The drawings are constructed as linear fields through layered parallel line systems, accumulating measurable distance — often reaching kilometers of total line length — built from repeated signals (individual lines). The archive currently spans numbered drawings from tegning nr 499 to tegning nr 857.