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==== Obstinate Lump ==== | ==== Obstinate Lump ==== | ||
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+ | "There is something about how it's kind of ugly and sticky and misshapen and almost banal and obtuse. Or obstinate - it doesn' | ||
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Dough resists neatness and control, an aesthetic of the unmade, lumpen and formless. It is an unwieldy mass that provides a physical confrontation with intractable matter. This stuff is not fluid, it is a sticking point for the mind to flow around, and as such acts as a provocative anchor to the mess of the world. Dough is an obstinate medium – it can be anti-architectural and anti-design in its production of form. | Dough resists neatness and control, an aesthetic of the unmade, lumpen and formless. It is an unwieldy mass that provides a physical confrontation with intractable matter. This stuff is not fluid, it is a sticking point for the mind to flow around, and as such acts as a provocative anchor to the mess of the world. Dough is an obstinate medium – it can be anti-architectural and anti-design in its production of form. | ||
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[[microresidencies|Microresidency]] by Bridget Currie and Chloe Langford | [[microresidencies|Microresidency]] by Bridget Currie and Chloe Langford | ||
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- Enjoying fragility, breaking apart, balance, seepage. Breathing alive blobs. | - Enjoying fragility, breaking apart, balance, seepage. Breathing alive blobs. | ||
+ | We also talked about matter. The feeling of craving matter, because so many important, heavy things exist digitally and have very little matter. How tactile activities are such a relief. Also the alien-ness of matter - the way the physicality of things somehow doesn' | ||
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+ | The doughs we've been making are funny - both rising and falling at the same time. We've been watching them slide and creep down surfaces and try to fight gravity with elasticity. As they slip down, you can hear tiny fibres breaking and snapping. When they are sitting in little round forms on the bench, they look like they are sleeping. Humming lumps. | ||
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+ | ====2013.07.14 day 5==== | ||
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+ | Looking over our experiments of the day before, we decided on several aspects of the samples to push further. | ||
+ | * Twin forms, either mirrored, companion or cut in half | ||
+ | * draped dough and gravity. Either a relaxed, gentle draping or lying down or a more reluctant sliding slippage. We made several experiments with cloth supports, metal supports and dough sliding down inclined surfaces. We included grass and coconut matting fibres in dough to aid it resist breaking apart under gravity. | ||
+ | * differences in surface (skin) and interior of dough forms, enhancing through glazes, colour, charring with blowtorch. | ||
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+ | It has been very hot and we have experienced a few problems with the dough drying out quickly. There is a fine balance between dryness and flow in the dough textures. | ||
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+ | We talked about a current feeling within art of returning to ' | ||
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+ | we think of dough gradually flowing around one's ankles like a warm tide. | ||
+ | ====2013.07.15 day 6==== | ||
+ | Research Gathering 6pm tonight! All welcome We will show our samples of sourdough baking experiments. | ||
+ | Spending today further experimenting, |