The Returning Light
a walk through an artist's mind
Walking the path
- Swipe up & down
- Walk along the path
- Swipe across
- Look around
- ‹ ›
- Step one work at a time
- Tap a light
- Travel to it
- Tap the lit work
- Open it large
- Follow the light
- The light walks you onward — tap again to stop
- The line below
- Tap anywhere on it to jump; the dots are the twelve chapters
- Find
- Search for a work by name
- ×
- Close anything
- Scroll / ↑↓
- Drift along the path
- → / Space
- Next work
- ←
- Previous work
- Drag
- Look around
- Click a light
- Travel to it
- Click the lit work / Enter
- Open it large
- J
- Follow the light — it walks you onward
- F or /
- Find a work by name
- Esc
- Close anything
Everything you pass stays lit. The thin line below marks the twelve chapters of the atlas, and the artist's notes wait in the dark between them.
The Atlas of the Returning Light
An artist's mind, with the lights off.
400 works wait along one winding path, turning over and over — a handful of loose renders, a book read a page at a time, more renders, another book, with moving pictures mixed in the whole way down. You carry the only light. Whatever you pass stays lit behind you, and the artist left notes along the way.
Gathering the first lights…
scroll to walk · drag to look · F to find · ? for help swipe up to walk · swipe across to look · Find to search · ? for help