fig. 1 — a name, drawn seven ways
O P H E L I A — ophelia.io O stippleP hatching, 45°H cross-hatchingE ruled lineL vertical hatchI three directionsA waveArt, experiments, and field notes.
A sketchbook kept in public by Aleksandra. For now, most drawings here are made with code: placeholders holding the space, politely, until chosen work moves in.
1 This site is mostly paper. That is on purpose: the drawings need somewhere to stand.01
Contents 5 entries · 08 places · all in progress
03 Soft systems Drawing study Parallel lines find a rhythm, then slip out of it. 04 Elastic weather Working toy An adjustable field of ribbons. A drawing you can change. 05 The instrument a quieter Play Deck Three dials and a tremor. It starts still. 06 Rhematic Worldbuilding / in progress A threshold into one project, with its private world kept private. 07 Contour study Drawing study Loops, dots and an imperfect center. Repetition with a little friction. 08 Notes from the margin Field note The thought around the thing, given room on the page. 08 Field notes index of marks, notes to come Kept as they come; mostly still unwritten. 09 About & colophon who, what with Aleksandra, and how this page was made. 2 Folios refer to this one long page. There is no printed edition; the dots lead somewhere anyway.02
03 art · Drawing study
Parallel lines find a rhythm, then slip out of it.
read the study → 3 Twenty-six lines. Watch the red one: it keeps time longest, then leaves furthest.03
04 toys · Working toy
An adjustable field of ribbons. A drawing you can change.
read the note → 4 A toy, which means the drawing can be changed. The instrument just below draws in the same family.fig. 4 — three ribbons, nine strands each, turning over 04
The drawing above is the instrument at rest. Its dials need JavaScript.
Three dials and a tremor. It starts still, moves only if asked, and keeps nothing once you leave.
5 “New hand” keeps the dials and changes only the shake, the way a second attempt at the same drawing never quite matches the first.
the full deck, with cartridges → 05
A door, and a world kept on the other side of it.
6 Nothing behind this door is published. The sliver of bare paper is as far as it opens.06
a the imperfect center b every fourth loop, pressed harder c stipple, thinning out 07 art · Drawing study
Loops, dots and an imperfect center. Repetition with a little friction.
a The imperfect center: one red dot, a little east and north of where the loops begin.b Every fourth loop is inked harder, so the eye can count.c Stipple gathers toward the middle and thins toward the edge.read the study → 07
Field notes, kept as they come 08 writing · Field note
The thought around the thing, given room on the page.
The first note is about the space around work: the question before it, the decisions inside it, and whatever is still open. It is short, and it is set the way the rest will be: a column for reading, a margin for thinking.
read it slowly → Notes to come no. 2 not yet written no. 3 not yet written no. 4 — 7 Listed honestly, as blanks. A contents page that admits what is missing is still a contents page.
Index of marks contour line 07 cross-hatching 01 , 06 hatching, 45° 01 , 06 leader dots 02 , 08 paper, bare passim; see esp. 06 red, used sparingly 03 , 05 , 07 , 08 ribbon 04 ruled line 01 , 08 stipple 01 , 07 tremor, seeded every line wave 01 , 05 errata none yet. Give it time. 08
Aleksandra Keeps this site: art, experiments, and field notes, in roughly that order of noise.
Rhematic is one worldbuilding project inside it. Its private world stays private; what appears here is the threshold, not the interior.
The pictures are drawn with code for now. Real work is on its way and will bring its own colours with it.
Type Fraunces, at sizes from margin to masthead; IBM Plex Mono for the small print. Drawings Seeded procedural SVG. Each stroke is given a slight tremor so nothing is ruled perfectly. Ink Black on paper, and one red, kept for corrections and exceptions. Quiet No tracking, no audio, nothing fetched from elsewhere. Reads without JavaScript. 09