running log of experiments in simulating pressings, indentations, print processes, and finishes on digital paper. favorite moments are kept as reusable materials for new work.
the sheet is the experimental space. clippings collects them. everything is drawn as a height field and lit in the browser. no build step, so serve the folder with npx serve . and run it locally.
- cover: the sheet, with every study resting on it as a paper slip. pick one up, carry it, tap it to open.
- the sheet, clippings, specimen, the press, sigil pressure, san francisco, round
- three hands: one decree carved three ways into granodiorite, chalked
- ebru: ottoman marbling, computed exactly with drop and tine transforms
- sun print: algae photograms after anna atkins, exposed and washed
- gilded: a raised gold initial on lapis, acanthus in the margins
- one line: a single spiral engraving after claude mellan, re-cut as the light moves
- kintsugi: a glazed bowl that keeps its breaks in gold
- smoked drum: a kymograph scratching through soot
- girih: hankin strapwork carved in stucco
- damask: silk woven from punched cards; the flower exists only in the light
- mirror with a memory: a daguerreotype that flips negative in the lamp's reflection
- sound figures: sand on a bowed brass plate
- morphogenesis: turing patterns grown as an emboss in paper
- golden angle: a sunflower head at 137.508°
- the black manner: burnish light out of a mezzotint ground
- camera obscura: the world upside down on the far wall; trace it in pencil
- nature printing: a barnsley fern pressed into lead, printed in green
- hands on the wall: hand stencils blown in ochre on a torchlit cave wall
- quipu: type numbers and they are tied in knotted cord, decimal and positional
- one stitch: hitomezashi sashiko stitched from the bits of two words
- rings: a tree since 1800; hover a ring for its year, the volcanic winters run thin
lib/gouache.js paints any height field the way the round map paints terrain.