Direct answers.

Plain answers about how the paintings are made and how to commission one.

• How does JohnDavid Whalen make a painting with a machine?

  JohnDavid Whalen turns a commissioner's feeling into an algorithm, lets a paint-charged machine carry it across the canvas, and makes the final mark by hand.

• How do you commission a painting made by a person and a machine?

  You commission a painting from JohnDavid Whalen by telling him the feeling the work should hold and paying 5,000 USD in two halves.

• What is A World Without End?

  A World Without End is a series of eleven paintings JohnDavid Whalen made in Lisbon through the summer and autumn of 2024.