IOTA  /  deep studies  /  1 October 2026

Stranded and fragmented, then coherent, geometric and worth something.

Four moving studies of one arc. Each runs thirty seconds: stranded, training, coherent, released. Nothing in any of them is a drawing of the result; each final form is what its parts add up to. Open one to see it full screen.

01 Radiolarian

Shards of a lattice drift apart in dark water, each in its own colour. They come home into one branching skeleton.

02 Coherence

Fourteen wave trains out of phase are chop. In phase they are a fourteen-fold figure with a thin film's colours.

03 Braid

Eighty-one loose, broken strands are laid into a rope with the same twist at four scales.

04 Diatom

A few cells far apart feed and divide until the disc is one close-packed tissue. Simulated live.

third round: the same arc, in water →

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