3mins

01arrival

a small study of stopping

the shapeof a pause.

Three minutes is long enough for a thought to change rooms.

begin the study

180 seconds / nothing to achieve

180 secondsthe signal begins

000seconds marked

01 / arrive

First, the noise
keeps going.

Even when you stop moving, the day does not. Here are 180 small seconds, set out in a field. Each one is waiting for something to happen.

scroll to look closer

02 / notice

Then a gap
becomes visible.

Attention is not a spotlight. It is closer to weather. It gathers, thins out, and leaves a little more room around whatever you are looking at.

01small gap
found so far

03 / leave a trace

Make one
second yours.

Click the field, or use the button below. You are not filling the blank. You are giving the blank a place to land.

00 of 12 marks made

the pause index / complete

Nothing happened.
That was the point.

Your marks are temporary. The next three minutes are yours to spend differently.