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        names of the sun, the first chapter of resistant atlas, traces sixty-five ancient Arabic names, and extracts spatial, temporal, and tactile data; using language as a tool to examine the complex experience of the sun through time.

       each name has been documented for poetic purposes in the past, however, there is much more to be uncovered through context clues. each name has traces of lost environmental knowledge: language used as timekeeping, orientation, and devotion. the project translates these forgotten solar logics into maps, volvelles, digital instruments, and physical arttifacts, revealing how people once used language as a precise instrument.

        this project began with an article in 
            






recent experimentations


1. reverse sundial
A 2 meter diamter ‘reverse sundial’ engraved out of frosted acrylic, serving as a way to make the names of the sun research into a tangible, rotating device, calibrated for 40 degrees latitude, with different configurations for the summer, winter, fall, and spring sun height.



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Setting up the sundial on the lawn of Columbia University, NYC.


At night, projections make the sundial alive.


2. Reverse Sundial (Nighttime Use)


After dark, or indoors, the sundial transforms into an interactive installation. A projected interface maps onto the dial, and as the arm moves, it dynamically updates to display the corresponding sun name in real time.



3. Remote-Controlled Miniature Sun


A handheld sundial, which is connected to the larger installation, allows viewers to point toward any part of the sky, in which the larger dial will respond to in real time. This component reintroduces the embodied, environmental logic once used to understand the sun to the viewer in today’s time and orientation logic. This system integrates Arduino, ESP32, JavaScript, and TouchDesigner.


                                     


the above remote is connected to the larger projection and controls it in real time.

4. Booklet – Resistant Atlas: Names of the Sun


A printed booklet archiving the sun names explored in this project.


                                                                  
                                                                               




        
                        

the above remote is connected to the larger projection and controls it in real time.


5. Pamphlets


A collection of pamphlets outlining the methodology of names of the sun and several projects under resistant atlas, such as houses of the moon and cloudspotter.
                  

next..


The upcoming exploration, Houses of the Moon, is a study of lunar stations, or where the moon seems to mark the night sky, and the intricate environmental logic they chart over time. they hold immense historical, navigational, and poetic significance, and these movements shaped the temporal and spatial frameworks we are familiar with today