what are you doing?
What were my actions?
so what?
What new questions do I have?
what's happened to me?
What was the result of my actions?
Rather than simply applying it with a brush, I submerged you completely in the diluted glue solution, soaking you thoroughly. Then, I hung you up, letting gravity naturally pull and shrink your figure. I kept adding onto your structure, attaching pieces haphazardly to see whether you would hold or not.
Now that I know all about your properties, I think it's time for me to put it into use, turn you into a tool rather than just something that sits there and takes a beating. I want to turn you from a passive material to be imprinted on, to an active tool that imprints.
I'm getting a bit bored of just turning you into things, shaping you, forcing you into whatever form I want and simply seeing whether you would resist or comply. I'm getting bored of thinking of you as only material, I want you to start telling me what to do.
what else do you need from me?
What does this mean for next steps?
Sometimes you fell, sometimes you held on. I think at this point I've gotten pretty familiar with your behavioural patterns. The amount of weight you could hold, the shapes you could support were more or less what I expected. I know you so well, it's getting a little too predictable.
what do you want?
What did I aim to do?
We switch back to paper maché, but this time we break free from the mold. Inspired by the natural folding of a cloth hung up to dry, I was curious as to how reacted to similar treatment, or moreso how you would capture this kind of detailed fold and freeze it in time. In addition, I was inspired by "Yeast Worlding", an artwork by by Robb Dunn and Baum & Leahy from the Fungi I saw showcased in the FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut. The graceful hanging structure of the work subliminally moved how I formed your own structure.
who told you that?
What sources do I use to inform?
I am thinking of my first experiment, my original goal of making a tool out of you. Somehow, I am also thinking of abacá fibers and what it represents in the significance in a country's developments colonial powers have. Why should you just become whatever I tell you to be? Why shouldn't you exert a force of your own?
