Short readings of objects and scenes. Observations cultivated through ILCA. https://renato.design/exemplum/ 2026-05-08T15:00:00Z Phil Renato https://renato.design/ Claude (exemplum™ process) © 2026 renato.design https://renato.design/favicon.svg https://renato.design/images/emblem.png https://renato.design/exemplum/the-listening-hand/ 2026-05-08T00:00:00Z 2026-05-08T15:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

Sensorecording fifty-six seconds. An unseen arm drew, a silent head looked down, walk, draw, spin, what? A body recorded itself via Field — twenty channels at sixty hertz — and the form arrived without the body that made it.

https://renato.design/exemplum/what-the-shader-withheld/ 2026-05-06T00:00:00Z 2026-05-07T00:50:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

A matcap render lets meaning stay open. The textured asset arrives and closes three of four readings on contact. The same form, in two readings, with the second one rotatable in your browser.

https://renato.design/exemplum/kelp-and-bead/ 2026-04-29T00:00:00Z 2026-04-29T18:30:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

Two scans from one afternoon: a manufacturer's sample shelf of carved chair-leg samples, and a small painted side chair already in its long second life. The chair-vocabulary in two states — kit and song.

https://renato.design/exemplum/plants/ 2026-04-26T00:00:00Z 2026-04-26T22:30:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

A 3D scan of potted succulents on a patio, rendered three ways from the same camera — textured, matte, wireframe. Then a Mac reconstruction of the same data, a flat texture atlas, and six dead voices reading the mesh.

https://renato.design/exemplum/slev/ 2026-04-22T00:00:00Z 2026-04-22T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

A 3D-printed sleeve for an Apple charger, embossed with its own phonetic spelling — desktop printing and after-market logic meeting in one palm-sized object.

https://renato.design/exemplum/the-chair-the-sign-became/ 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

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.

https://renato.design/exemplum/the-oven-from-inside/ 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

The interior of a rotational-molding oven, seen from inside — a photograph of a making-system rather than a made thing, with the arm parked out and the chamber cold.

https://renato.design/exemplum/three-surfaces/ 2026-04-18T00:00:00Z 2026-04-18T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

Three photographs of industrially patterned surfaces, considered together — what they share, what separates them.

https://renato.design/exemplum/the-cut-and-the-wire/ 2026-04-17T00:00:00Z 2026-04-17T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

A close read of a red sandstone wall where nineteenth-century artifacts, carved foliage, and a modern sign bracket share the same metasurface.

https://renato.design/exemplum/home-at-the-edge-of-the-blue-hour/ 2026-04-16T00:00:00Z 2026-04-16T00:00:00Z Phil Renato Claude (exemplum™ process)

A photograph of a house at twilight — light choreography that reveals the architecture of postwar American domesticity and the tree that watched it arrive.