Theo Watson

@theowatson.bsky.social

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Interactive installation artist. 
Co-founder of Design I/O (2020 National Design Award winner). 
Co-founder of open source toolkit: openFrameworks.
https://design-io.com || https://openframeworks.cc

A Projector hanging from an I-beam
Beyond Dark Castle screenshot
Magical athlete board game box with characters on the box
A photo of a California Newt. Brown with orange underside
Great horned owl in a tree
Puzzle laser cut out of wood.
Your grandmother and I (and many others) would have had to be more extreme people than we were, during that critical a period, to have done whatever it was we should have been doing. Our lives had not prepared us for extremity, to mobilize or be as focused and energized as I can see, in retrospect, we would have needed to be. We were not prepared to drop everything in defense of a system that was, to us, like oxygen: used constantly, never noted.
George Saunders book Liberation Day.
It was W.H. Auden who said: ‘there are good books which are only for adults, because their comprehension presupposes adult experiences, but there are no good books which are only for children.’ The great discipline of children’s fiction is that it has to be written for everyone: because if it is not for everyone then it’s not for anyone at all. It offers us the specific joy of finding our commonality: we can all meet on the pages of A.A. Milne in a way that we cannot on the pages of Jacques Derrida.
Engraving of Geometria a female representation of the Liberal Art of Geometry.
Mushrooms with water drops on the cap. Credit: Theo Watson.
Red shouldered hawk in Petaluma
OpenFrameworks / computer vision image of a person’s silhouette.
Bird on a metal fence post
A truck with the word emergency on the side
Partial eclipse