Experimental Concepts
One open word, taken all the way to a finished, honest, self-contained thing.
Each piece in this series starts from a single word and is built end to end — interpreted, argued over by panels designed to disagree, fact-checked, audited, and published — without copying the one before it. The method stays; the shape changes every time. A gallery, then a game, and now a language.
I · KALÓN — beauty
Beauty is not one thing; it is a few recurring moves, and the last move belongs to the beholder. Five playable generative instruments and a finale composed from your own play.
hulkiokantabak.github.io/kalon
II · ROLLO — courage
Courage after Rollo May: not the absence of fear but movement in spite of doubt and despair — played, not preached. A wordless marsh crossing where the only certain road goes backward. Its first version was a text page; the author ruled it a failure, and the lesson — text depicts, mechanics enact — shaped everything since.
hulkiokantabak.github.io/rollo
III · LEXIS — curiosity (you are here)
Curiosity is the loop by which a mind teaches itself a world it was not given the key to. LEXIS is a small language you read by writing it: you arrange glyphs, the field answers with the state they mean, and you revise. Nothing is hidden and nothing is a puzzle to solve — a small grammar whose stacking has no ceiling, where a wrong guess is the best thing that can happen because it means the world is larger than your rule.
IV · POTHOS — desire
Desire lived in one register: the distance between wanting and having. A garden of appointments — you sow a seed with a small hold, it tells you exactly when it will open (a day, a week, a season), and nothing you do can hurry it. Being there while it is open is witnessing; missing it is recorded plainly. The first piece in the series that happens mostly while the tab is closed, and the first that can be addressed to another person.
hulkiokantabak.github.io/pothos
V · —
Not yet made. The word is still open.