Gestures
A camera that turns hand movement into living typography.
Gestures came out of a stubborn curiosity: what does handwriting look like if the pen is gone and only the motion remains? I wanted to read the shape of a wave, a reach, a flinch.
A camera tracks your hands and a type system answers in real time — letters that stretch, scatter, and pool depending on how you move. Slow and deliberate, the words hold together. Fast and loose, they break into a field of marks that still somehow read as language. There is no menu and no instruction; you figure out the grammar with your body, which is the part people remember.
The build is computer vision feeding a custom renderer, but the engineering was never the story. The story was watching strangers get shy, then bold, then performative in front of it — discovering that they were writing with their whole arm. VICE picked it up, and the footage that traveled was always the same: someone laughing at what their own gesture turned into.
It taught me that interaction is choreography. Give people a clear cause and a surprising effect and they will compose something you never could have scripted. I still pull pieces of its renderer into new work.
