Concentric, after rain
Six rings drawn at low tide, the outermost dashed where the wave forgot itself.
Vol. 04 — Tideline Folio
바다
The sea as remembered, not photographed. A folio of plates, notes, and fragments — gathered like flotsam at high tide.
On the tideline as interface
Content does not arrive in uniform waves. It drifts in staggered bands — the way flotsam gathers where two currents meet, not where you expect.
The sea refuses to repeat itself, but never forgets the shape of the shore.
Nested semicircles
A specimen drawn from memory; its hinge slightly off-true.
Horizon stack, four readings
Sunset altitudes recorded over four evenings. Lines descend; the eye follows.
Walked east of the breakwater
Three cormorants, one fishing net, the smell of brine and diesel. Fog by 4 p.m.
Triangle-fan, four registers
An attempt to record swell without recording water.
Albers in the fishing village
Hard primitives — circle, semicircle, arc, chevron — composed with deliberate asymmetry. No hand drawing. The ruling pen does the remembering for us.
기억된 바다 — 사진이 아닌, 떠오르는 것.
Crosshatched rosette
Navigational, ornamental — the compass remembers itself.
Arc readings, weekly
Three nested arcs, one for each tide observed at sunrise.
Chevrons, found in sand
Wind-drawn marks at the tide's high reach; gone by noon.
Plates · selected
Fig. 01 · Fan, dawn
Fig. 02 · Six rings
Fig. 03 · Hinge
Fig. 04 · Horizon
Fig. 05 · Rosette
Fig. 06 · Swell
Notes & longer drifts
Essay · 14
On the tideline as interface
The shore is not a line — it is a duration. The sea writes and rewrites it daily, and our reading of it is necessarily late. To design a tideline is to design a record of what was, displaced by what is.
Continue reading →Essay · 13
Albers in the fishing village
A small village school of color and form: chevron and arc, semicircle and ring. The instruments are honest — compass, ruler, ruling pen — and they refuse to flatter the hand.
Continue reading →Essay · 12
바다, remembered weekly
The site refreshes its arrangement once each ISO week. Returning visitors find a familiar room re-furnished — the same plates, but hung differently, like a tide that knows its shore.
Continue reading →Colophon
Index
Typography
- Display — Futura Geometric
- Body — Inter (Futura subst.)
- Editorial — Cormorant Garamond
- Hangul — Pretendard / Space
Palette
- Paper Salt
- Deep Tide
- Driftwood
- Seafoam Dust
- Coral Memory
- Sun-bleached
Credits
- Edited & drawn — bada.casa
- Set in Futura · Cormorant
- Printed — static, edge-cached
- Generative seed — ISO week
- No analytics on launch
— end of folio · 바다 · vol. 04 —