Reading guide

How to read this site

This site is a threshold into one practice, not a single exhaustive explanation. The homepage gives doorways. Studio / Current Work, Learning / Teaching, Systems / Distribution, Atlas / Maps, Archive / Research Nodes, and the Press kit carry different kinds of truth.

Where truth lives

  • Studio / Current Work is the quickest visual and material route into instruments, rooms, image systems, sound work, fabrication, and care as material.
  • Learning / Teaching holds courses, workshop structures, and teaching systems.
  • Systems / Distribution holds publishing, machine care, documentation, classroom infrastructure, and maintenance as public structure.
  • Atlas / Maps is the relationship layer: tools, scenes, learning environments, systems, methods, and the fleet map.
  • Project repositories carry live implementation truth when a project is public and repo-backed.
  • studio-notes carries cross-project patterns, decisions, references, and teaching cards harvested from working repos.
  • Archive / Research Nodes keep earlier photographs, rooms, objects, and media stacks active as research material feeding the current practice.
  • Research, Methods, and Privacy & Ethics explain how claims, evidence, consent, and public boundaries are handled.

How the layers relate

The project pages name what a work is. The Atlas names what it connects to. Repositories show the live build state where public release is appropriate. Method notes distill habits that repeat across projects: evidence before polish, assumption ledgers, consent-forward systems, documentation as interface, and maintainable public structure.

The large fleet map belongs in Atlas because it is a reading instrument, not a homepage pitch. Use it when you want the topology: tools feeding scenes, scenes feeding learning, learning depending on systems, and studio-notes collecting patterns across the whole field.

For source-level diagrams, open the fleet map draft or the core project relationships draft.

How not to overread it

  • A public page is not always a finished project. Some pages are prototypes, studies, public-safe excerpts, or evidence stubs.
  • Some claims stay quiet until a public proof object exists.
  • Some work remains redacted because students, participants, private infrastructure, or home-studio details should not become portfolio material.
  • The archive is not a separate former identity or passive history. It is earlier research material that the current systems still cite.

Good starting points

Open Studio for the work, Learning / Teaching for the teaching practice, Systems / Distribution for infrastructure and maintenance, Atlas / Maps for relationships, Archive / Research Nodes for active source material, and Press kit for quote-ready framing.