Ocean
Scribe.

Conical optical tunnel: Ø250 mm at viewer aperture, widening to Ø800 mm at ocean-facing lens. 715 mm depth. 21.1° half-angle.

The tunnel is conical: Ø250 mm at the viewer-facing aperture, opening to Ø800 mm at the ocean-facing end where the wide-angle fisheye lens assembly is seated. At 715 mm depth it falls within the optimal working distance for direct-view fisheye optics, with full lens visibility maintained from all eye positions within the viewer aperture. The cone half-angle of 21.1° places the dark receding walls visibly in the viewer's peripheral field — a presence, not merely a tube.

The tunnel interior is finished in ultra-matte black (<1% reflectance) so that it reads as a clean dark circle when the lens is dim and as a precise pictorial frame when the strait is bright. Rain on the lens is treated as a meaningful condition of the work, not a defect.

Upper and lower LED zones are symmetric about the horizontal centreline.

Viewer aperture

Ø 250 mm

Ocean aperture

Ø 800 mm

Tunnel depth

715 mm

Cone half-angle

21.1°

Cavity depth

130 mm

Reflectance

< 1% (matte black)

Data active. Transparent. One programmable boundary between them.

Data active. The full Ø3600 mm disk renders live ocean data as colour, flow, and pulse. The animation is dominant; the centre porthole reads as a small dark or quietly lit circle.

Transparent. The LEDs dim toward black; the strait reads through the central fisheye lens. The disk recedes. The porthole becomes the picture.

The boundary between these two conditions is software-defined and continuously variable. Across the day, the work moves fluidly between a unified luminous surface, a dim ground with a bright porthole, and every gradient between. This is the core compositional logic of the piece.

Clifftop promenade. Approximately 25 m setback from cliff edge. Oriented south-southwest toward the Strait.

The installation is sited approximately 25 metres back from the cliff edge on an existing coastal promenade. The viewer face addresses the inland path; the ocean-facing aperture is set toward the Strait and is not accessible from the path.

The fisheye behind the central tunnel captures roughly a 180-degree panorama of the Strait and the Olympic Mountains beyond. Underground services for power and data are routed along the existing path corridor.

Final position is subject to CRD approval, geotechnical survey, and ecological assessment.

Setback

≥ 25 m from cliff

Orientation

South-southwest

Path

Coastal promenade

Lens FOV

~ 180°