B / 017 · Working prototype
18 Sep 2026
A flame-like figure around a central teardrop.
Wake it
Opens the 3D piece, full screen. It runs in your browser and works best on a recent one. "About this being" brings you back here.
- Drawn
- 18 September 2026
- Source
- Second sketchbook
- Medium
- Ink on paper, photographed, traced and woken in 3D
- Strokes
- 33
- Stage
- Working prototype
- Rights
- Original work
What this piece notices
- Your pointer or touch, while you play with it. That is how it knows it has been poked, petted or picked up.
- Your breath, only if you switch on Breath. The microphone's loudness is read live, in the page. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
- Tilt and shake, only if you switch them on, on a phone.
- Your visits, remembered on this device only: what you have found, and how its shapes have come to treat you. "Forget me" clears what every being remembers; if you keep playing, it starts remembering again.
- The time on your device's clock, which sets the light: morning, afternoon, evening or night.
It does not use your camera, and it does not know who you are.
Ways to meet it
There are 20 things to find. Some ways to start:
- Tap or click a shape. Then move slowly over one, or rub it on a phone.
- Pick a shape up (on a phone, hold it first), swing it and let go.
- Tap the floor to leave a drop of ink, and see who comes to drink.
- Leave it alone for a while.
With a keyboard: arrow keys turn the view, plus and minus zoom, and Enter pokes a shape.