The Aesthetics of the Empty RoomAn adjacent reading on the Zen concept of subtraction in Japanese design, Kujō Dono's plain carriage, and the beauty of incomplete things.
Laokoon: The Poetics of the RuinAn apparatus exploring how the 18th-century 'Graveyard Poets' and the romanticization of ruins served as a passive escape from civic life.
Laokoon: The Limits of Tone-PaintingAn apparatus analyzing Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Irving Babbitt's medium boundaries, and how Spotify playlists functionalize tone.
Laokoon: The Didactic HeresyAn apparatus exploring Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Poetic Principle,' Irving Babbitt's critique of moralizing art, and the didactic feeds of modern media.
Laokoon: The Charioteer's ReinsAn apparatus exploring Plato's Phaedrus, Irving Babbitt's inner check, and the automated chariot of modern algorithmic feeds.
Essay Club & Presentation RegistryThe central registry and submission portal for the Essay Club, featuring presented works, short form writeups, and shared curations.
Poetry Anki Deck GeneratorAn interactive mnemonic flashcard compiler that generates customized Anki decks from copy-pasted poetry.
Number Walks SimulationAn interactive mathematical simulation visualizing cell placement under deterministic walk and collision vectors on a bounded coordinate space.
The Transatlantic Family Map: An Ancestral LineageA Tufte-inspired historical visualization and genealogical map tracing seven generations of the Bowen and Pott families across Europe and North America.
Ultimate Tic-Tac-ToeA nested tic-tac-toe game with Saremann, an inspectable locally trainable opponent, alongside a perpetual common board and private rooms.
Ultimate Ultimate Tic-Tac-ToeA three-level recursive tic-tac-toe game with all 729 squares composed into one visible field, playable in shared or private rooms.
Ultimate Ultimate Ultimate Tic-Tac-ToeA four-level recursive tic-tac-toe game spanning 6,561 squares, with two scale maps, a public commons, and private PIN invitations.
Psychiatry
Timeline of Psychiatric PracticeAn interactive, Tufte-inspired timeline mapping 188 key milestones in diagnostic nosology, biological science, legislation, and insurance billing.
Two Departures from ScholasticismA parallel history of natural philosophy and Protestant theology as they renegotiated the authority of scholastic systems between the 12th and 18th centuries.
Map-Making and the Socratic TrapAn essay exploring the history of cartography and the danger of falling in love with the map (theory) instead of the territory (practice).
Creeds & CredencesA guided, Scripture-linked quiz for mapping convictions, uncertainties, hybrids, tensions, and revisions, with church-family resemblance as a secondary transparent overlay.