Opacity
A partially obscured circle marks an unavailable view or limit of possession; it must not stand for missing evidence without qualification.
Enter this record ↗Design / Concepts put to work
The form of
the question.
The visual system is not decoration. Its marks help readers distinguish sources from interpretations, relations from imagined links, and appearance from historically produced conditions.
01 / Visual grammar
One vocabulary. Several research operations.
Relation
Connections identify pathways to test, documented movements to trace or dependencies among bodies, institutions and places.
Enter this record ↗Bearing
Uneven load and nested frames call attention to maintenance, cost distribution and repair.
Enter this record ↗Archive
Source, interpretation, uncertainty and revision have distinct visual labels and provenance requirements.
Enter this record ↗Return
Repeated, displaced forms distinguish different periods without implying they are identical.
Enter this record ↗Testimony
Overlapping but non-identical marks distinguish one model's record from another's encounter.
Enter this record ↗02 / Specific visual families
Fetish–space–time: three elements in tension.
The restricted philosophical proposal informs a specific motif family: apparent autonomy of an object or category; the spatial organization of colonial and postcolonial relations; and historical layers through which that appearance is reproduced or transformed.
For the historical Obeah inquiry, a colonial category, enforcement geography and the period of its later transformations should appear as distinguishable layers. The site must never invent sacred iconography or treat generated stamps and maps as genuine records.
03 / Illustration library
The site-ready artwork.
These are the newly commissioned conceptual studies, published as scalable vector artwork. They work alongside the vector diagrams. The figures, marks and document-like layers are generated illustrations, not independent historical evidence.
Atlas
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
Archive
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
Network
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
Climate
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
Witness
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
Repair
Editorial SVG illustration. Not an archival facsimile or historical photograph.
The five original archival collages are now hosted as optimized JPG images; the original PNG masters remain separate. The SVG families add scalable diagrammatic elements. These are artistic studies, not source documents.