The Whiskey Sea

I. PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE STORY-TELLING

Loss, grief
“______ just doesn’t see me” (“unable to feel me”)
blindness and touch
transformations: space, sound, light, collective
(data viz)

II. PROCESS AND MATERIALS
“Silent Hysteria”

“Puncturing and Scraping”

“Inked Pen Puncturing”

Layering:
“Little has the wide world…”

“Alphabet”

Some experiments in braille alphabet typography:

Letters “A” through “F”

Letter “A”

Letter “E”

Pen Ink Punctures

Photo Paper:

Non-translucent Vellum:

Traces:

III. BINDING: Magnets = modularity + conductivity

IV. SOUND: punctures (expression), reading touch (ocean)

Piezoelectric Polymers
Headphone speaker conversion
Maybe: FSR; photocell

V. SIGHT: light + projections

Light sources
Magnifying glass (memory projections)

VI. NEXT STEPS: this week (4/4 – 4/11)

CONTENT: scheduling
Private: Interviews & recording (negotiating privacy); Give materials to people and let them create
Gathering: create and record together

TECHNICAL: sound
Binding; Braille typewriter (Marianne)
Sound (Igoe PDS)

V. THE FURTHER FUTURE

data viz
ITP context (book, housing) vs. wider context (installation)

Book Sculptures:

Location and Sounds:

Silk-screening Conductive Ink Lines:

Lighting LED:

Speaker Coils with Conductive Ink on Paper:

Mixing Thermochromatic Ink + Conductive ink:

Writing with thermochromatic + conductive ink mixture:

Testing touch on thermochromatic ink:

Layering thermochromatic on top of conductive ink:

Sketches: