Gravity

An orrery built to weigh what pulls us down.

"Gravity" — Volume V · ORRERY. An orrery built to weigh what pulls us down; a falling hand, dissected along an orbit of spider-silk. One of ten instruments for the immeasurable.

ORRERY — instruments for the immeasurable. Ten fictional Renaissance instruments, each built to measure something that cannot be measured. Drawn in the hand of a da Vinci codex — one ink, one discipline. Volume V of the Axion system.

A museum-grade matte giclée poster. The diamond in the lower right is the studio's mark. One discipline. Every object.

• Ratio · 2:3 (12×18 · 16×24 in)
• Stock · 180 gsm archival matte
• Print · giclée, archival inks
• Shipping · made to order, dispatched in 2-5 working days · free UK delivery, free international delivery on orders of £25 and over · shipped flat in a rigid tube
• Frame · sold separately

How this piece was made. Made with generative AI, directed by us. Model: gpt-image-1 (OpenAI Images API). What it is based on: Leonardo da Vinci codex study sheet; anatomical study of the human hand, dissected to the bone. Our written specification: Sacred geometry: a golden-ratio spiral and concentric orbital rings with degree ticks. THE INSTRUMENT: a tabletop orrery built to weigh gravity, tilted elliptical orbital tracks driven by a small gear train at the base, a single lead sphere falling along a logarithmic-spiral guide toward the centre, fused with a Leonardo anatomical study of a falling human hand, fingers open, dissected into its bones along one orbit. The impossible detail, drawn prominently: the orbital tracks are also the threads of a spider's web, and the falling hand casts no shadow. A clear engraved title in large Roman capitals at the bottom centre: GRAVITY. First rendered 2026-06-21. We write the style rules, the caption and the scene; the model renders them. The specification is our own original work and is kept on file with a dated render record for every design we sell.