Harm van den Dorpel
Entfaltung is German for unfolding — the development of something already implicit into its fuller form. It is the name of a new generative series that begins in research into the pendulum drawings of Emma Kunz, composed in the plane, and ends in a live computation of points in space whose positions change over time. The name describes the method: what Kunz's constructions hold implicitly in two dimensions is unfolded, stage by stage, into three dimensions and then into time.
The series is a forthcoming NFT release. Its alpha is shown for the first time in the Summer 2026 exhibition at Lohaus Gallery — not as a video file but as a live computation, played off a computer through a short-throw projector directly onto the wall. Because every frame is calculated in real time, the piece never repeats. The work currently lives at the unreleased address entfaltung.harm.work.
