Every Hour, On the Hour · a Dear Data postcard

Dear Data · a week & a half of looking up

Every hour, on the hour

Each waking hour I stopped and wrote down the three colours in front of me, whether the scene was moving, the pattern I noticed, and where I was standing.

one mark = one waking hour  ·  230 hours drawn, 15 slept through  ·  hover any mark for its whole story

How to read it

postmarked June 24 – July 10, 2026 · St. Paul's School and home

One mark per waking hour. Shape = place, nested fills = the three colours (outer primary, middle secondary, core tertiary), rays = movement, the small mark below = the pattern, a moon = asleep.

The shape: where I was

The mark below: the pattern

The rays: movement in the scene

Missing hours

The colours: exactly as named

Every named colour keeps one fixed ink throughout; counts pool all three colour slots of each hour.

The full log, hour by hour: all 245 entries as a table
DateHourPrimarySecondaryTertiaryMovementPatternSetting

drawn from 245 hourly observations · in the manner of Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's Dear Data