Laminated folios

I make laminated folios as a meditative practice: collage and laminate what is current, paint a season across the stack, then paint the same surfaces again the next year. The folio shelf holds them. This page tells how they came onto the site.

Thirteen operator words hand-lettered in blue down a teal-washed page, potential through integration, each followed by a line about how it is practiced — **Folio 00, Operator curriculum, teal.** The first scan of the first release, and one of the week's five opened at full size in 2026-W39.

How it works

Each piece is scanned at 300 dpi. The master stays off the site; the site keeps up to three sizes in two formats and a small .spw record that names the piece, its scan, and how it may be used. Five scans open at full size each week.

Touch it live

Walk the shelf, read where the scans live, or ask for a piece.

*releases

Three scan days

2026-09-26 — 31 folios, made one per day for a calendar. The masters run to 419 MB; what the site carries is 9 MB.
2026-09-27 — 27 more folios, made one per month, with 25 panel faces and 7 scans of the worktable.
2026-09-28 — 25 primes and 8 square scraps. A prime is cutouts arranged on a clear sheet: in the record's words, "a step toward a folio, not yet a piece offered."

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Time spent

shelf opened: 2026-06-13
commits: 40
active days: 20
full-size weeks: 2026-W39 and 2026-W40

Git measures only the shelf, the scans, and their records. The stack itself is older than the repository; the shelf calls it "a few years of wonder kept on laminated sheets," and paint time leaves no commits.

?taught

What scanning taught

Putting a held thing online meant deciding what one scan is.

A face is not a piece. The record says it plainly: "A panel id names one scanned face, not a panel." Which front belongs to which back is not yet written down.
Every picture stands on something you could hold. The piece, its master scan, and the public sizes are three resting places, and the shelf marks its scans "scanned, not generated."
A path can be open before anything walks it. The shelf describes how a picture grown from a scan would link back to it. None has been made yet.