Work

This Is Not a Portfolio

An AI-assisted interactive portfolio built as a knowledge graph, connecting finished work with its methods, contexts, themes, decisions, and the different parts of a layered practice.

Year
2025–2026
Role
Designer + Developer
Output
Interactive Web Experiment
Interactive portfolio map connecting works, methods, contexts, and themes
Interactive portfolio map

Stage

A portfolio built from connections.

The interactive website uses a knowledge graph to connect each project with its methods, contexts, and themes. It combines scroll-based storytelling, Stage and Backstage views, and AI-assisted production.

Show what connects the work

Alongside finished projects, the map shows the tools, methods, themes, lessons, and difficulties linking them.

Story first, map second

A scroll-based introduction leads to the knowledge graph. Individual project pages then separate the visible result from the process behind it.

Data, canvas, and scroll

TypeScript holds the content, Canvas 2D draws the map, scrolling drives the opening sequence, and AI supports parts of the writing and code production.

The portfolio maps itself

The website also appears as a work node with its own methods, decisions, and Backstage story.

Backstage

I built it with AI, then questioned that.

I used AI to help write and build a portfolio about honest self-representation. That contradiction became part of the project instead of something to hide.

I used AI as a collaborator

GitHub Copilot wrote most of the code, and AI helped draft project descriptions before I edited them. I kept asking when the website represented me and when it represented what the tools expected from a portfolio.

I separated result from process

The Stage and Backstage structure made me compare what actually happened with what usually gets shown. Writing the Backstage sections exposed how much professional representation normally removes.

The graph showed me patterns

Once I organized the work as connections instead of a list, I noticed tools appearing across different contexts and themes joining projects I had considered unrelated.

I made the argument visible

A portfolio is not only a record of work. It also argues for a version of its author. This website makes that argument explicit and leaves the tension visible.