a tall order

What's on the studio wall this week

By Tal Bogomolny

  • art
  • process

This post is an .mdx file, which means it can do things a plain markdown post can’t: import components, embed optimized images, and carry its own little visual experiments. The prose is still just markdown — the extra power only shows up where I reach for it.

Here’s the first thing on the wall — a print I’ve been living with:

An abstract risograph-style composition: a persimmon circle, a tilted dark frame, and a low green arc.
Untitled, screen test. The frame is deliberately crooked; I liked it more that way.

The image above is running through astro:assets: it was a single 1600px JPG in src/assets, and the build turned it into responsive, modern-format versions sized to whatever screen you’re on. I didn’t have to think about any of that.

And because this is a playground, a post can say something in its own voice — here’s an aside styled just for this entry:

One more, tighter in the column this time:

A flat-lay of colored rectangles on paper — persimmon, sage, and clay blocks arranged like a gallery wall.
This week's arrangement. Ask me next week; it'll be different.

That’s the pipeline working end to end — components, images, and a per-post experiment, all inside one post. Exactly what I wanted the design phase to be able to lean on.