Atlas

Five families of figures, and how each one is drawn.

Most commissions in the studio land in one or more of these families. The atlas shows what the desk asks for before a page starts. A brief still begins with a letter.

Overhead view of hand-drawn water, waste, and crop marks on aged paper
Plate · families laid out before a figure list

Canal and compound water

Pump hours, cubic metres, and flood days from khlong banks and factory compounds in eastern Bangkok. The studio wants the log as it was kept, including the weeks a pump ran for a neighbour's field and the weeks the book was left blank during a festival.

A page can show a season. It should name the pump and the person who filled the book. A compound that shares a meter with a house next door needs that house mentioned, or the total will be read as the factory alone.

Waste leaving a yard

Organics, plastic, and residue, by the week, in the unit on the scale ticket. Mixed weeks stay mixed and are labeled as mixed. They are not divided by a guess so the chart can have three clean colours.

Where a trader collected plastic on an irregular day, that departure is its own mark. Landfill residue is drawn in a colour the client has agreed, after a board in Bang Khen once read an unagreed red as an alarm.

Electricity by hall or line

Kilowatt-hours from bills and, when they exist, from hall notes. A single compound total is drawn as a compound total. It is not split by floor area to invent a hall the meter never saw.

A baseline year is only the months counted the same way the next year will be counted. Partial notes stay partial. This is the family a Min Buri mill used when a dryer was about to be ordered on memory alone.

Wages and hours

Ordinary time, overtime, and days a line stood down. The stand-down stays on the spread so a quiet month is not praised as speed. The studio asks whose notebook holds the only record of that week.

These pages are readings for a family or a buyer meeting. Payroll questions and labour advice stay with the client's own adviser.

Suppliers, lots, and planting counts

Rice lots received, garment bundles accepted, or seedlings put into mud, including the months a supplier was silent or a tide returned. Round slogan numbers are declined when a tally already exists.

A later count, if someone made one, sits beside the first. If nobody went back, the page says the later count was not made.

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