what about the outliers

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Cardboard Automata

Lint, felt, laundry, fibers, and time to pass

Originally I had planned to sit in the laundry room, needle-felting lint from the dryers into a large ball. Immediately, I discovered that the fibers were too fine to perform as I had hoped. As I experimented with the lint, I decided to see if it could be encouraged to felt by adding more wool fibers to the mix. Looking next to me, I noticed the large pile of sweaters that i had left out of the dryer. I began plucking fibers from them seeing if different proportions could create a more solid ball. Eventually, I started to felt the wool fibers into sheets which wrapped around the lint scraps. Towards the end of my time, I manipulated the fibers so that they would felt more effectively by dipping them in hot soapy water. I finished my time by playing around with different arrangements of the little felt balls.

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.music by Amiina

.Thanks to Nicki for use of her camera

Endurance

I, Brighid Connors, will be in the laundry room of Teft starting at 3:30 pm. on Wednesday until 9:30. During my time I will needle-felt dryer lint into a ball.

Swap

thanks to Nicki Klepper for the photos

A look at how we are defined by our things and what happens when we 'swap.' Quite literally, we step into one another's shoes.

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Remix.

Sonic Postcard Remix from Kaitlyn Gilham on Vimeo.

Sonic Postcard

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A Personal Record of Time

Baking bread; my personal record of time.

Gathering ingredients, waiting for the yeast to activate and the bread to rise; Gauging time through bread baking is a visual and physical process. In this situation, time is dependant on the conditions of the environment rather than on hours and minutes. The dough is finished rising when it has doubled in size, and the bread is done whenever the crust becomes golden brown. Over the course of the day, as the loaf disappears and the crust hardens, the ephemeral quality of bread baking bread becomes evident.