The exhibit · choose a direction
One body of work.
Many ways to walk through it.
Fifty-six patents, thirty-three years, one engineer — David A. Ruben. Each room is a complete treatment of the same verified record. Start with the three below; keep the one that feels like him.
The Forge
The making of impossible things, told as prestige industrial documentary. Pages lit by weld-fire; patent drawings pinned beside photographs of the real act; a laser draws each section rule and leaves it cooling.
ember · drawing-meets-reality Enter → 02The Pulse
The patient’s story, warm and unhurried. An ECG thread stitches every page — from 1961 hands tuning a Medtronic box to a leadless capsule glowing in a 95-year-old’s X-ray. Why any of it matters.
porcelain · cardiac red · ECG thread Enter → 03The Atelier
The definitive monograph — chapters on warm paper, full-bleed photographic dark rooms between them, physics as exquisite marginalia. Archive, reality, and idea curated by one hand.
monograph · plates · dark rooms Enter →Round three · cinematic
Work in progressVideo-forward experiments — bolder, rougher, still being refined.
Round one
Prototype archive