Room V / Living light
Lantern Migration
Exact local time
The hour selects the flock's formation. Minutes bend that formation through sixty paths. Seconds coordinate every wingbeat and change in altitude. At midnight, the sky empties before a new migration begins.
Migration paths
The copper curve is the hour's formation family. The green curve is its minute distortion. Wing angle and vertical pulse expose the second.
How to read it
The flock's overall silhouette identifies the hour. Its path and rotation identify the minute. One coordinated wingbeat and altitude pulse is a second.
Living lanterns
Each instance has a weighted body and articulated wings. The nearest creatures reveal tiny ridges and water inside their translucent bodies.