Susmit Das

BetweenWorlds.

Design, code, and stories for the spaces between imagination and reality.

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Selected pursuits

  1. FIG. 01

    Branching Lattice

    A study of how small rules grow into structure you did not plan.

    Ink drawing of a single neuron's branching arborization on aged paper
    FIG. 01 · Branching Lattice
  2. FIG. 02

    Atmospheric Terrain

    Looking for the moment distance turns into weather.

    Misted layered terrain fading into pale atmosphere
    FIG. 02 · Atmospheric Terrain
  3. FIG. 03

    Translucent Matter

    Holding a thing to the light until it stops reading as solid.

    Translucent poppy petals photographed against warm paper
    FIG. 03 · Translucent Matter

Thinking in progress

  1. On Keeping a Map Instead of a Résumé

    A portfolio asks what you finished. A map asks where you have been, and it leaves room for where you are going.

  2. The Long Middle of a Thing

    Most of the work lives in the part nobody photographs, the slow stretch between the idea and the version you can show.

  3. Noticing as a Practice

    Attention is the raw material. Before I make anything I try to notice one thing honestly, then follow it.

Specimens in motion

  • SPECIMEN 01

    Seed Head

    A thousand small departures held in one shape.

  • SPECIMEN 02

    Wing

    Structure you only notice when the light goes through it.

  • SPECIMEN 03

    Diatom

    Glass architecture built by something that never drew a plan.

Susmit Das keeps this atlas as a place for work, notes and experiments to sit together instead of apart. The writing here is temporary and will grow as the map fills in.

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