A way of looking at a thing carefully enough that the system starts to show.
Each entry takes something holding space in the world — a shoe, a chair, a room at a certain hour — and reads it. What made this? What vocabulary did it inherit? What system could generate something like it and what would it strip out?
The exemplum™ process is a shape for processing those readings. I take the photo and the method reacts. Claude writes the drafts, I direct and edit.
A 3D scan of a chair made from reclaimed street signs — and the path from “I have no idea what this is” to knowing what it is.
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A photograph of a making-system rather than a made thing — the interior of a biaxial rotational-molding oven, chamber cold, the arm swung out.
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Three photographs of industrially patterned surfaces — a failed tactile tile, a tiled wall, a ribbed seal — considered together for what they share and what separates them.
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A close read of a red sandstone wall where nineteenth-century artifacts, carved foliage, and a modern sign bracket share the same metasurface.
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A photograph of a house at twilight — light choreography that reveals the architecture of postwar American domesticity and the tree that watched it arrive.
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