Ty Rex Studio
A Living Archive Built With:
Claude Code + Codex
Self-Owned Legacy Portfolio,
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The Living Archive is a creative archive system for the life, work, and evolving practice of Ty Rex, a multidisciplinary artist, thinker, and practitioner. The project thinks of a greater legacy: how can a body of work stay whole, visible, and self-owned across a lifetime?
Creative Strategy: Nonduality in Design
The creative strategy brings many parts of a life into one living system instead of treating them as separate categories. Writing, music, visual art, teaching, research, philosophy, objects, and process all become part of the same field.
For Ty Rex, this is also a memory tool. As someone with ADHD, being able to see their work gathered in one place is part of how the work becomes real, remembered, and re-entered. The archive is designed less like a static portfolio and more like a visual map of a scattered but deeply connected creative life.
Built to Change
The larger goal is a self-owned platform that can grow with Ty Rex instead of relying on rented platforms like Patreon, Substack, or marketplace storefronts. Over time, it can support paid subscriptions, self-hosted community, private teaching materials, member publishing, and direct sales of artwork, editions, writings, music, objects, and future offerings.
Web Prototype
The prototype uses generated archive entries, browse modes, filters, visual clusters, and detail panels to explore how Ty Rex’s work can be seen, searched, connected, and remembered. Behind it is a larger CMS schema in progress for artworks, writings, music, video, teachings, objects, collections, tags, timelines, access levels, purchase links, and community materials. The backend is not deployed yet; the prototype tests the archive’s structure and feeling before the deeper system is built.