THE GREAT WAVE — AFTER HOKUSAI
Ithaka
C. P. Cavafy, “Ithaka”, 1911
The wave carries the journey. The geometry is Hokusai's sea; the text, the road we wish to be long.
ApproachHelix Codex · seven works on paper
Rational text in irrational geometry.
Every sheet in this room holds a real text — a poem, a myth, an observation — written into the line itself. Photograph the print and the words come back, letter for letter.
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LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL
The Way Back
Theodoros Dimitriou
A logarithmic spiral grows without changing shape: you move away and remain the same. The biography is not written on this page — it is hidden inside the work, like everything else here.
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BRAIDED RIVERBEDS
River
Heraclitus of Ephesus, fragments
You cannot step into the same river twice. The drawing braids riverbeds that part and rejoin — and the text inside them says exactly that.
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GOLDEN-ANGLE PHYLLOTAXIS
Heliotrope
Phyllotaxis — an observation, not a quotation
The drawing is built from the very angle the text describes. The form is its own explanation.
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RIDGES IN DEPTH
Ridgeline
Folk song, traditional
Mountain ranges in depth, and inside them the voice that sang them before there was a way to write it down.
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PETALS IN THREE LAYERS
Garden
Sappho, fragments 47 and 168B
Petals in three layers. The oldest text in the series, in its simplest geometry.
ApproachCONCENTRIC RINGS WITH A GATE
Labyrinth
Apollodorus, Library III
The thread is the very line you are reading. The labyrinth hides the story of the labyrinth, and the way out is to follow it.
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Each work is read three times.
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From afar
A form. A wave, a spiral, a labyrinth — geometry drawn by equations, never by hand.
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Up close
Writing. The line is a double helix and every rung carries a colour. Come down to 0.4 mm and you are looking at the atoms of the letters.
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With the reader
The text. Photograph the whole sheet with the reader and the hidden words return, intact — no account, no network, no key but the page itself.
How to read a work
7 works
The series
The paper
The only shape that survives being halved.
A4 is 1 : √2. Cut it in half and you get two copies of itself. The ancients called √2 ἄλογον — without ratio, unspeakable — and here it carries spoken words. That contradiction is the whole subject.
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Prints
Archival pigment prints on matte cotton paper, signed and numbered. The larger the sheet, the more easily the reader reads it.
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Your text — vows, a poem, a family history, a founding charter — set into a geometry we choose together. The words go inside the work, not beside it.
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The key is a free app.
It runs on any phone, offline, without an account. It finds the four corner marks, straightens the photo, calibrates colour from the legend, follows the helix and repairs what the camera got wrong.
From five to fourteen I drew and painted. Then computers came and I put the brush down. These works are the road I found back — without leaving behind what I learned in between.
The story