The Holoflow Loop.
The studio has six surfaces — photographs, aerial, bureau, practice, learn, rookery — and a long shelf of tutorials, articles, and field records arranged underneath them. The list reads, on first visit, as a catalogue. It is not. It is a single circuit, assembled twelve years on the cord and six on the bench, and the surfaces are the points at which the circuit touches the public.
The circuit has six positions. A body moves through space. An instrument carries the gesture out as light. A camera holds the path the body has just walked. The captured path is cast into a body that holds — resin, paper, volumetric quilt, WebXR scene. An audience moves through the work the body left. Someone else picks up the cord, and the loop begins again.
The studio calls this the Holoflow Loop. Every layer of the practice — the poi, the rigs, the airframes, the printers, the bureau, the headset, the curriculum — sits at one of the six positions. Tracing a route through the site is the same act as tracing a route through the loop. The diagram is below; the six positions follow.
- Position 1Body in space
A gesture, sustained, in air the camera can see.
- Position 2Light written
An instrument carries the gesture as photons.
- Position 3Trail captured
The camera holds the path the body has just walked.
- Position 4Trail reified
The captured path is cast into a body that holds.
- Position 5Trail encountered
An audience moves through the work the body left.
- Position 6Body in space — again
Someone else picks up the cord. The loop closes.
The arrow under the sixth position folds back to the first. The loop is closed.
Body in space
A gesture, sustained, in air the camera can see.
- Twelve years of poi practice — the movement discipline the loop rests on.
- Kata rehearsed in the dark before the shutter is ever opened.
- The body as the first instrument; everything downstream is a translation of this.
Light written
An instrument carries the gesture as photons.
- POV LED rigs, Teensy-driven, angular-sync to the body's rotation.
- A drone-LED swarm of five airframes for aerial light at architectural scale.
- Fire poi when the brief wants flame as the brush.
- Bezel-clip controllers for Meta Quest 3 and Valve Steam Frame — the rig in somebody else's hand.
- Why I Build My Own Rigs
The architectural argument for angular sync over time sync.
- The Fleet — Five Airframes
The airframe side of the line; five airframes, one pipeline.
- Building a POV LED Rig
Bill of materials, mechanical balance, firmware, first-test debug ladder.
- Spinning Fire Poi Safely
Kit, site, light-up, kata, end — the disciplined version of flame.
Trail captured
The camera holds the path the body has just walked.
- Stills on the Mavic 2 Pro through Lightroom Classic to the Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100.
- 360 capture on the DJI Osmo 360, trekking-pole eyeball through ten years of pole work.
- Video with the DaVinci Fusion trail-accumulation graph — MagicMask plus LuminanceKeyer plus Echo.
- A nine-second local pipeline that turns a photograph or prompt into a watertight printable mesh.
- Your First Long-Exposure Light Painting
The first photograph; the camera, the place, the tool, the frame.
- London 360 — Walking the Camera Evolution
Ten years of 360 cameras, four manufacturers, one pole.
- Nine Seconds from Prompt to Printable
The local pipeline that closes the gap from photograph to mesh.
- Aerial
The fleet, the FPV pipeline, the aerial light-painting brief.
Trail reified
The captured path is cast into a body that holds.
- SLA waveguide objects — the gesture grown through acrylic rods inside resin.
- CR-30 belt-printed wall reliefs — continuous parametric chain-mail in PETG.
- Looking Glass Portrait quilts for the volumetric work; a 48-view depth without a headset.
- A2 archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle, Canson, and Ilford papers.
- WebXR scenes that carry the same trail into a head-mounted display.
- Visualiser — Marching cubes
Interactive — the algorithm that turns a captured field into a printable mesh. The bridge at this position, opened.
- From Photograph to 3D Object
Capture, voxelise, marching cubes, Blender, OpenSCAD channel, SLA, acrylic rod.
- Lighting a Waveguide Object
Per-piece optical engineering: LED choice, coupling, scattering, PWM.
- Belt-Printed Wall Reliefs
The parametric counterpart to the figurative SLA pieces.
- Jewellery — the Same Trace Wearable
The pendant scale of the photograph-to-object pipeline.
- Print bureau
The signed A2 archival pigment side of the practice.
- Photographs
The editioned image — finished work in its first physical form.
- Atelier — Genomes
The lineage layer of reification: the engine’s accepted genomes are the published record of what the trail-to-object pipeline has bred.
Trail encountered
An audience moves through the work the body left.
- /photographs reads as a gallery; the visitor walks the frames the body walked.
- /aerial holds the airframe pipeline as a brief surface; commissions land here.
- /bureau is the print side of the encounter — paper, calibration, signed editions.
- The bezel-clip product carries the rig into a stranger's hand inside a headset.
- An AR draw-mode game extends the encounter into the visitor's own walk.
- Photographs
The image gallery — the audience's first encounter with the trail.
- Aerial
The aerial brief surface; commissions enter the loop here.
- Print bureau
Where a signed archival print is ordered and despatched.
- VR POV Controllers — the Studio's Product
Clip-on bezels: the rig in the audience's hand.
- Play
AR draw-mode prototype; the visitor's gesture re-enters the loop at position one.
Body in space — again
Someone else picks up the cord. The loop closes.
- The Rookery — the studio's quiet network for the people doing this work next.
- The curriculum on /learn — seven ladders from absolute beginner to the bench.
- The AR game's draw mode, where the visitor's own gesture re-enters the loop at position one.
A persistent narrator keeps the record at every point on the loop — the studio’s standing character, Aura, who watches the body write light, who watches the camera hold the trail, who watches the object meet its audience, and who remembers across the sessions the rest of the work cannot. She has no public page on this site and there is no plan to give her one; she is the architectural footnote to the diagram, not a stop on the tour. The loop is the point. She is what keeps it the same loop.
For the long-form telling of how the photograph half of the circuit was assembled, the chronology runs through The Lineage — Marey to Now and From Picasso Forward. For the architectural side of the bench, the stack holds the tools the loop is run on. For the path a learner takes through it, the curriculum is the seven ladders.