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 ==== Obstinate Lump ====
+"There is something about how it's kind of ugly and sticky and misshapen and almost banal and obtuse. Or obstinate - it doesn't care about what I want, it is just a lump. Obstinate Lump." - email exchange between artists
+PHOTOS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157634633722986/
 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
+bridgetcurrie.com
+mmrgghh-hi.tumblr.com/
 <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9262475009/" title="coconut fibre and dough experiment by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3737/9262475009_d9b9929ced_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="coconut fibre and dough experiment"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9262469745/" title="drawings in progress by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5323/9262469745_2314199c56_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="drawings in progress"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/9265247538/" title="first bake experiments by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7288/9265247538_647802b243_n.jpg" width="320" height="213" alt="first bake experiments"></a></html>
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 Microcultures Zine, http://bbva.irational.org/microcultures/
+====2013.07.14 day 5====
+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.
+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.
+We talked about a current feeling within art of returning to 'expression', rough paint, plaster and gestural surfaces. Is such a return possible in a non-ironic, non macho way? What we are doing does not feel like an attempt to externalise 'emotions' but an attempt at empathy with material.
+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, cleaning up and sorting the samples into some kind of order.