About the project

A gallery you can walk through.

ArtanovaWall turns a collection of images into a continuous, top-lit corridor you explore in first person — art hung on the walls of a room rather than stacked in a grid.

Most art online lives in thumbnails. ArtanovaWall borrows the one thing a screen usually throws away: the room. Work is hung salon-style down a long hall — gilt frames on ivory mounts, oxblood walls, daylight falling from a glazed ceiling — and you move through it at your own pace, stopping where you like. Every piece keeps its wall label, crediting the maker and linking back to the original.

How it's built

The gallery runs entirely in the browser — no plugin, no app — rendered in real time with WebGL. It works with mouse and keyboard on the desktop and with touch on a phone, and the corridor sizes itself to however many works are on show, so no wall is ever left bare. For devices that can't run 3D, or for anyone who'd rather just browse, the Explore page presents the same collection as a flat, searchable grid.

The images currently on the walls are open-license works — contemporary photography and public-domain reproductions from museum collections — sourced through Unsplash and credited on each label.

Work with me

I'm an independent developer building at the intersection of art and the web. ArtanovaWall is the showcase; the same engine can become a gallery for your work, an online exhibition for a collective or a show, or a bespoke interactive piece.