A day of deep thinking - spending time in the dissecting room today was fascinating - the body is full of stuff - who knew! Layers upon layers upon interconnected layers. Holding a person’s head in my hands was strangely comforting whilst taking out parts of the brain and examining them oddly not odd! Seeing bodies laid out brought a whole range of new ideas to the zebra plate project. After being in the DR the conversation was full on and focused on how to encompass the new ideas that were brought up around affordance and its relationship to self-selection and determination. The idea of spaces in between and what determines the functionality both inside the individual structures and around in the external spaces. The role of proteins in determining how the material in the body evolves from a similar place, the concept of fate (an actual science concept)! Analogies like the idea of a flat sheet of paper and that same paper folded into a 3D form were incredibly helpful in developing my understanding. How to create and move the ideas and a project forward, not replicating structures but providing a form of commentary that enables new and deeper understanding of the development of the cells in a body. The experimental models were sketchy and involved a range of new methods - filling latex gloves with water, sewing the modular forms together with elastic, containing the structures within 'frames', changing the material - remaking the forms in foam. What does 'stuck' or 'sticking' mean in the context of the microscopic? What do forces and stuck have in common? What is their relationship? Are magnets an answer?
