Objects / mechanisms / decisions

How things
work. And why.

Begin with a thing. Take it apart, change something, see what follows. Interactive explanations of the decisions that make an object what it is.

A sister series to Motion Studies.
Interactive. Incomplete. Provisional.

First study / in development

Leica M

Beginning with the M6: a vantage point into optics, mechanics, and the evolution of film cameras.

Taking shape

Open workbench / two specimens

The lab

A shared control and a small object to take apart. The first building blocks, working in the open.

Explore the specimens ↗