KOAIKOI · out on the desk today
Art that
notices you.
Today's beings are out on the desk. Step up and meet them.
Loads the 3D desk, about 250 KB. Or see it drawn flat.
01 / The practice
A little familiar.
A little alive.
KOAIKOI is an artist-led practice by Timothi Ellim, exploring what happens when the things we make begin to feel like beings. It starts in ink: pages from a sketchbook that rise off the paper and behave in ways of their own.
02 / The beings
Drawn in ink.
Awake on screen.
21 drawings from two sketchbooks, each able to wake as a creature. These are the newest.
03 / A small encounter
It is only a drawing.
Until it answers.
This is 25 Dec 2025, a page from the first sketchbook. Press the button and it shifts, as if it had noticed. It responds to the press and nothing else: the drawing isn't watching you.
It is lying still on the page.
04 / Field notes
The work is
still becoming.
The journal will hold sketches, decisions and things learned along the way, with the making kept visible. The first notes are being written.
An artist-led practice
Made by a person.
For curious encounters.
KOAIKOI is the art practice of Timothi Ellim. For research in social XR and creative technology, visit the professional portfolio.
timothiellim.com