Traversals
Views into the graph of practice.
What This Is
This is a graph database of my practice, made queryable.
Every piece; every material, tool, finish; every thought I document, every conversation I have with AI about the work lives as a node. The connections between them—what embodies what, what led to what—are edges. Context. It's a map of how I think the work thinks.
How It's Made
I ask questions. The database returns structure. An LLM turns that structure into prose.
The AI writes the words. I control the questions, the data, and whether any of it sees daylight. Nothing appears here that I haven't reviewed, refined, and decided to publish. The machine is a collaborator, not an author.
If that bothers you, I understand. The tension between what we create as humans and what we create with AI is... tense. Consider this an experiment in an emergent media form: conversation between my intentions, my data, and a model trained on work by people who were never asked.
The irony isn't lost on me. I'm using it anyway.
Inquiries
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What does it take to reclaim oneself through making?
A trace through autonomy, reclamation, and resistance -
Which piece touches the most distinct nodes across all relationship types?
A trace through foundational conversations that shaped the entire practice -
The ideas that persist through multiple refinements are your actual beliefs. What survives repeated compression? How many distillation layers deep do you go?
A trace through formal refinement, existential definitions, and the database as new form -
What is the meaning behind this body of work?
A trace through the formal language, core qualities, and existential arc of transformation
Qualities
- becomingness (7)
- autonomy (2)
- reclamation (2)
- resistance (1)
- belongingness (1)
Trace Types
/trace/piece/:name- Deep dive into a piece/trace/embodies/:ness- Pieces embodying a quality/trace/element/:element- Formal element exploration/trace/conversation/:id- Conversation trace/trace/question/:slug- Thematic question trace