This is one of a series of unique pen and ink drawings by the American artist Roman Verostko (born 1929), who developed his own computer software to control a pen plotter, or drawing machine. In 1995 he co-founded a group known as the Algorists, or artists who use algorithms to create their artworks.

Verostko has explained that "the Rocktown Scrolls are named after the Pennsylvania coalfield “patch” where I grew up dreaming wondrous dreams while sliding down the ash-dumps. They present colorful pen & ink drawings accompanied with passages selected from a wide range of literature and culture. The passages are written with algorithmically generated glyphs clothing the alphabet with a unique set of linear forms. These coded glyph forms invite us to ponder the nature of language while the larger colored forms may be savored as cyberflowers floating in unbounded space." (Roman Verostko, Minneapolis 2006.)

The three-column text at the bottom of the image is from Shakespeare's As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players..." (Act II, Scene VII). Other works in the Rocktown Scrolls series include quotations from William Blake, Black Elk and the King James Bible.