The studio's lab notebook, left open on the bench.
Entries are dated, versioned and corrected in the open — records of things in the register, and handbook pages on the craft they're built with. The notebook is young; it only records what happened.
21 ENTRIES PUBLISHED · LAST ENTRY 2026·07·23 · DB-COMPUTED
the notebooks
a drawer exists only when
it holds two real entries
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