experiment 03 · direction

Compass: the body as a dial

lineage: geloracompass · obangsaek directions (east/wood, south/fire, center/earth, west/metal, north/water)

Device orientation gives us the phone's heading. Asking a visitor to face a direction before a work opens makes their whole body part of the interface, and quietly imports a cosmology: in five phase theory, each direction has a color, an element, a season.

target heading (0=N, 90=E, 180=S, 270=W) tolerance (degrees)

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the triangle points toward your target · turn until it settles upright

experiments to try

Map the five obangsaek directions to five photographs. The visitor turns in place and the gallery rearranges around their body.
Set tolerance to 3°. How does precision change the visitor's posture and patience? At what number does ritual become frustration?
Combine with experiment 02: a work that opens only at one place, facing one way. A photograph as a summoning condition.