The Devices of Turned Wind and Colored Bloom

This page catalogs a set of mechanical instruments designed to measure, stir, or expose the invisible qualities of air and motion.

• The Weighted Plume Crank:
  A long arm ending in a dense tuft, lowered and raised by a wheel to test vertical currents.
• The Centripetal Bloom Engine:
  Its arms spin in widening arcs, each tipped with a color-coded plume used to track rotational drift.
• The Tower of Balanced Flowers:
  A structure supporting heavy boughs of artificial foliage, used to detect sway caused by distant pressure changes.

• The Oscillating Reed Chamber:
  Provides controlled pulses to stimulate movement in lightweight clusters.

• The Ground-Level Spinner:
  A rolling cylinder wound with plume fiber, used to measure friction against earth and shadow.

Each apparatus is named in the margin in the local script.

Function and Interpretation

These devices do not measure mere wind, but the hidden emotional climate of a place.
Their plumes brighten or dim in response to:

• communal tension,
• unspoken desires,
• approaching storms of thought.

The text explains how readings must be interpreted:
A red plume means urgency.

A yellow plume means hesitation.

A blue plume indicates concealed longing.

A final caution closes the page: “A machine will reveal the air, but only a witness can reveal what moved the air to speak.”