Four deep studies: scattered, then one body
So the second round dropped the readings and kept one story: scattered parts, then training, then one coherent body. Four studies told it with four natural forms, each running live from rules, never drawn. Two of them mattered later. Coherence gave the waves that fall into step, and Diatom gave the cells that divide until a shape is full.
4 pieces. Each opens live in a new tab.
Radiolarian
Left44 shards of a lattice brought home into one skeleton, each at its own fixed lag.
Open the piece ↗
Coherence
CarriedFourteen wave trains, out of phase, fall into one fourteen-fold figure.
Its wave trains are the sea in every round after.
Open the piece ↗
Braid
Carried81 loose strands laid into one rope: one twist at four scales.
Named on 3 October the closest in style; round thirteen starts from it.
Open the piece ↗
Diatom
CarriedA few cells far apart divide, live, into one close-packed disc.
The cells that later fill the name, then the model’s layers.
Open the piece ↗This is much closer but make it more oceanic / liquid focused.