The Returning Light
a walk through an artist's mind
Walking the path
- 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 — next unlit work
- 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 hand-written 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, and every so often a hand-drawn sketchbook, 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…
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