Koi Pond
An ambient pond, made for slow looking.
Koi Pond is a place somewhere between imagination and memory: a pond in a Japanese garden, made for slow looking.
Koi drift between lily pads under moving light. Each swims on its own, and when two come close, they swim side by side. The pond asks little of you. It’s an ambient piece, a place to observe and to slow down.
A click releases a new koi into the water, and you hear it arrive. Every few minutes, rain passes. The light dims, drops ring the water and tap the lily pads, and the pond moves into another mood before it settles back into stillness, the pause the Japanese call ma.
How the pond lives
The pond is a small set of things that sense and respond to each other, each written as its own system.
From sketch to pond
Sit with it
Click anywhere in the pond to release a koi. Sound on.
Click anywhere to release a koi. Sound on.
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