A texture study · diamond painting
Ripple
A koi pond under glass, with water on the glass. See it as the photograph or set in resin drills, then touch it: a ring spreads from your finger and the picture beneath bends through it.
Tap the water
The water is real, in the only way a page can make it: a grid of heights that ripples outward and settles a little every frame, the way a pond does. The picture is read through it, bent by the slope of the surface, and the crests catch the light. Every few seconds a drop lands on its own, as if a fish had surfaced.