room 1

all the rooms were empty

domestic space has encapsulated us, those of us lucky enough to have it

as with all architectural spaces it is hierarchical, whether knowingly or not

so how do we place it on a rhizomatic structure?

and this has to focus on the singular home, because housing as a system is hierarchical 

i want to make the home as uncanny

hopefully not unfunny

here is a room, a room in my home,

it's a start

it will be explorable

maybe a game

where you just snoop around my home

a looking inward at someone else

when it feels uncomfortable to enter another home

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some more images i feel unsure where to post

trying to play around with what projection mapping could look like

utilising the uv editing on blender and project from view to get a front facing view - the one issue at the moment is that it is projecting around the whole object rather than just one face

ideally i want to make it so i could think about having different projections//images on different faces of the objects - maybe by lunchtime i may have figured a way

or you know, maybe not

anyway here is the first go, working with the recurring saw shape (not my best) and a sphere because it was easy to just add in a simple shape

 

(i also have a video im going to upload to here the animation i rendered)

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a continual update

i'm trying to think about designing a space

about what that space will contain

about how to encapsulate what it is i'm hoping to get across in my research 

and when i think about what i have been researching

it comes down to a mixture of the rhizome and of language

repetition

mimicry

removal of hierarchy

a sense of delineating from a circumscribed order - away from what is the normative, away from a binary, away from dualism, and away from the arborescent as Deleuze and Guattari define it

and at the moment i am thinking of using blender to create this space - but i want it to be something that is physically achievable - blender is the sketchbook that allows some kind of realisation of it

i'm going to come back to this later in the day and update it

right now i'm going to go play

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i've been playing a bit more this afternoon with different materials to place on objects, more looking towards an aesthetic view of how what i'm doing could come together - i guess especially with how we can work in the digital to make things that can both be made physically and also not (or at least not fully (re)creatable)

another little experiment a couple more to follow after dinner

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(a better version of this is available through the maze)

technical issues

it's been a slower couple of days, i've been working through ideas in my head rather than making

and this can be good and bad for me

on the positive side, it's made me realise that i want to focus in on some more research to backdrop what it is i have been making, i'm delving back into Fred Moten's Black and Blur, Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, and i do want to get back into Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 

i say all this, but it's worth noting i keep getting sucked up into reading through twitter, it feels a lot more digestible to be able to go through quite short things at the moment

whether that is just a worry about really getting into theory, trying to find the headspace to really focus on something that isn't making

i guess what has felt bad about being in my head is the lack of transferring these ideas into something more tangible 

there's this constant looming feeling of wasted time, which i know in real terms it isn't

but it can be difficult to not succumb to the doubt of not making

today

today has just felt like an attempt at making so far

i was playing with blender earlier, but because my laptop doesn't like to run physics animations smoothly, or maybe that should be, "can be temperamental" about running them

what i am hoping to do is to start to think about projection mapping, how that could be realised through blender, and how ultimately that could be something to think about post-digital

maybe if i can get it to run slightly smoother (maybe closing the 40 odd internet tabs i have open might help) i can get something up soon

watch this space 

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practice smactice

the previous post is an essay on my methodology that can hopefully begin to explain some of what it is i am looking at

it was written around december time 2019, so i want to think a bit about the progression from that point

and its a bit odd, because with everything going on i feel like i've been on hold since march

so this feels like its lagging behind where i had hoped to be, and that's something i can have a hard time with

but it's also like, chill out, it's not the end of the world (we could hope for the end of capitalism and the end of police, but that's a different conversation)

i think in the essay there could and should be a more radical approach to dismantling and rethinking art institutions, im trying to do some more reading around this now, using the recent white pube text as a great starting point for research 

with the overall situation severely limiting physical interaction with work im in the process of establishing ways to link digital spaces with physical ephemera - at the moment i've been thinking about either instructions to encourage senses while viewing digital work, or//and postal art to be viewed, felt, smelt alongside anything existing in a digital space.

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as an update, i have moved the essay, i want it to be more visible as i find it kinda encapsulates what my process has been this year

blenderama

i feel like im trying to treat the other website as its own entity 

then view this as more informal

so im going to include some working images that can flesh out more what is appearing on the other website

some experiments on blender - working with images/videos as planes, putting images on 3D object, the cloth modifier, and texture painting

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middling

trying to work around the limitations of the cargo website 

embedding videos is pushing me to my data limit, but i need to see if there is a way to have these files accessed through elsewhere 

at the moment it feels a bit rhizomatic - i guess lack of any real clarity on where you're going and what you're seeing adds to that

its a series of hyperlinks sending you around in circles 

i feel like i want to have each page going off in different directions (but ones that link up to the kinda sporadic thoughts that have led work in different directions)

its all potato peels

shoots in different directions

everywhere is a middle point

even when you have to a front page

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visuals

this is a work in progress

well both of these are,

but here is the link to visuals

it will be added to (it's a little shaky and confusing right now)

https://tomgraystone.cargo.site/

i'm treating it as a space to play in rather than purely documentation 

i'll update this post when its a bit more finished

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building

this is just something I guess for me to see how this works and will look

i'm going to be building this up over the next 10 or so weeks leading up to the end of the course

i hope this can provide some kinda introduction to what it is that i'm wanting to do, what i'm thinking about, and maybe just how i'm dealing with this current situation

i'm going to follow this up with something that will, fingers crossed, be slightly more informative

sorry if these posts run on, i can sometimes start to waffle when i write like this

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