Light, held in the hand,
set against the dark.
Twelve years of poi — a body, two weights on two cords, fire drawn against the river — compressed into objects. Ambient-light waveguides, desktop sculptures, and configurable wall arrays. Each piece carries a fragment of a gesture the room remembers.
Twelve years of poi.
Optics as residue.
Poi is a discipline of held gesture — two weights on two cords, a body moving in planes so precisely that the weights draw shapes in the air. Sustained long enough, those shapes imprint. The camera sees them. The long exposure holds them. The room the gesture was performed in remembers them.
Holo-Flow Studio is the instrument we built to make that memory portable. Persistence-of-vision displays captured in the field become files. The files become waveguides cast into resin, sculptures that live on a desk, and wall arrays configured to the room they'll hang in.
Each piece is editioned, signed, and accompanied by the field record: where the gesture was performed, what hour, what date.
