Sometimes when I see something beautiful—an arch, a shadow, the rhythm of a facade—I feel it pass through me too quickly. The moment is private, fleeting, hard to hold onto, let alone share. ArchEyes is my attempt to explore different possibilities with that moment.

ArchEyes asks you to trace what you see—with your hand. You look at an image and mark where your attention goes. A corner, a curve, an interesting group of negative spaces. As you trace, the tool quietly records your rhythm of looking: where you lingered, what you skipped, what you returned to. It becomes a kind of fingerprint.

Each session lives on as a small artifact: your traces are translated into an animation of your gestures in time. Different annotations—points, lines, frames etc—are mapped onto the eye-shaped graph; your pace is encoded in the gap between stripes.

I plan on making a catalogue called OtherEyes next. You can visit it, see how others moved through the same image. I’m excited to see the differences in how we each notice and meander.

ArchEyes begins with architecture images because the forms are clear and structural, but what I really want to explore is something deeper and more slippery: the topology of attention, if I may. This is a small step towards that dream.