The Survey of the Works
of Tommy Long
Field Book · London · 2022 to date
IThe Sheet
Tommy Long’s contribution record, January 2022 to today, drawn as a survey. Each column is a week and each cell a day. The more contributions, the higher the ground, and a day under five is sea.
IIThe Surveyor
Tommy Long, software engineer, London. Building software since 2008; at present Technical Lead at Equals Money, a UK fintech, across five product domains, and chair of its AI Centre of Excellence. The essays are in the Journal beside this book.
IIIConventional Signs
Relief
- Contoura step in contributions
- Index contour, figuredcontributions a day
- Spot heightthe day’s count
- Hachureswhere the count changes fast
- Land tintsby contributions a day
Water
- Seathe quiet days; its arms are the weekends
Land
- Strip fieldsworking ground, a strip to each week
- Woodlandthe flat high ground
- Dry-stone wallthe steepest breaks
- Settlementssteady weeks, from barn to village
Occasions
- Landing in a named baya holiday
- House on a named sounda week or more away
- Track off the foot of the columna work trip
- Trig pointa planning day or conference
- Marsha bank holiday
- Bench mark, numberedan essay in the Journal
- Marker horizonan AI model released
- Unsurveyedthe months to come
Drawn from the record each night at the Surveyor’s Office, London. Set in Sorts Mill Goudy, Petrona and Archivo Narrow. The ground, the water and the lettering are drawn by hand in the browser, and the light falling on them is London’s, at the hour of reading.