A jacket made of multiple personal garments, each with significance to a period in my life. Old items are sewn together to create a single piece in uniform. Depending on how the user wears it, the garments volume changes up or down thus 'decrypting' and playing vocal tracks of my dirty little secrets: lies, passwords, credit card numbers, stories about my life, relationships and unspoken desires.

The underlying theme of the work is much less about the process and more about the content of the audio.
Namely the dual experience of the spoken and unsaid and how the dialogue shifts dynamically when both are available to the other participant. What would happen if we could hear not only the verbal but the thought? What would happen if we could literally hear someones secrets? passwords? lies?

I am drawn to the idea of creating a 'connection' that would turn the switch only when two people are physically touching or close. I feel the key discussion in this piece is the misscommunication of needs and fears and how we protect ourselves by censoring ourself and the exploration of what happens when that veil of muting is lifted.

at it's most basic, your whole life is just a collection of moments. sweet moments, happy moments, long and bitter ones, moments in the rain, ones that you'd rather forget, moments that send a shiver down your spine, moments that never happened like blown kisses that never got caught. and those moments, those memories, they never really have any order to them. they're scattered across the vast plain that sprawls endlessly in the back your mind. but in the mess and the haze, there are always beginnings, where it all started, and it's not until you're given a little time to absorb it all that it suddenly hits you, that you can say, hey, that's it, that's where it all began.

I'm interested in semiotics in our relationships and the misinterpretation of communication esp. relating to intimacy in thought, love vs fear or is fear and love the same, they are simply miscommunicated as different?

" In semiotics, the concept of a code is of fundamental importance. Saussure (1857–1913) emphasised that signs only acquire meaning and value when they are interpreted in relation to each other. He believed that the relationship between the signifier and the signified was arbitrary. Hence, interpreting signs requires familiarity with the sets of conventions or codes currently in use to communicate meaning."

What is the implication of communication when we can literally hear the other persons thoughts? How would the dynamics shift in our relationship if everytime someone hugged you or kissed you or made love to you, it triggered a series of secrets to be told? How would this change us? How would this change them?

reused garmets, conductive fabric, hacked mp3 players and 6 channel audio tracks played on 3 mp3 players.

I basically learned pcomp, having not taken the class I had a massive crash course in DYI pcomping, I learned everything from a basic circut to zigbees in the period of a semester.