A small exhibition, labelled honestly.

The Guhl Forge is the personal exhibition of Eric Guhl. It opens with one body of work, Project Winchester, and is built to hold others as they are ready to be shown.

What is on view

Each work is presented the way a gallery labels an object: what it is, what it is made of, and how far it has come. A built work exists in the application’s source today. A prototype is an experiment kept apart. A direction is argued for and not built. An open question is exactly that.

Being built is not the same as being proven useful, and the labels do not claim it. Where a page says what exists, it says what has not been decided too.

How the figures are made

The application is private and holds personal records, so none of them appear here. Every figure is drawn for this site, with invented contents: a ferry, an orchard, a tune from a café. The interactive ones follow the application’s documented rules closely enough to try an idea with your own hands; they are illustrations, not the application, and they say so.

Colophon

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