Sydney
GENERATIVE WEB WORK · 2026
A single grevillea lives here in Sydney's real time. Its light follows the actual sun; its leaves move with today's wind; when it rains in Sydney, rain falls on it.
At first it appears as an individual being, complete in itself. Stay still, and its relationships surface: the light and water passing through it, the soil and roots beneath it, the honeyeaters recently recorded nearby — named, dated, drawn in their true direction — and you.
Every visitor is a pollinator. Pass your light through the flower and you carry its pollen. Cross another visitor's light, or a path someone left earlier in the day, and a seedling takes root in a shared field that grows over the following weeks.
Draw back and the flower becomes one life among many: grevilleas recorded across the city, seedlings grown from visitors' meetings, all joined below ground. Draw close and it dissolves into the threads it is made of.
Move gently; stillness reveals. Scroll or pinch to change scale. Sound is optional.
Concept and artwork: Robert Sherwood Duffield. Weather: Open-Meteo. Wildlife records: Atlas of Living Australia and its contributors (CC BY). Presence in the shared field is anonymous; the path of your light fades within a day.