Field notes
Abstract overlapping blobs composed from colorful Solarized ANSI cells, with dithered gradients flowing between warm and cool colors. A native portrait composition of an original seeded fluid field. Warm and cool Solarized colors flow through authentic IBM text-mode glyphs and deliberate negative space. A panoramic abstract fluid field. Seeded organic ribbons, islands, or perforated masses carry dithered Solarized gradients across the full width, with deliberate negative space and no labels or mechanical overlays.
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01 / catalog of investigations

Things made.
Questions left open.

Text, geometry, and a few carefully chosen constraints. Each entry is a small investigation into how a thing takes shape.

These are editable demonstration projects, included to show the publication in use.

Text-mode composition2026Demo work

Open room

A text-mode room built from offset frames, half blocks, and one deliberately open edge.

Generative study2026Demo work

Interval

An ordered field of marks that develops a fault, folds inward, and finds a quieter rhythm.

Process notebook2026Demo work

Marginalia

A process notebook that keeps decisions, loose fragments, and rejected versions beside the finished image.

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