Daniel chat:
OH: With the totem we have unstackable/rearrangeable that’s something I would like to preserve as I move towards a more resolved work. Because it’s quite a big vision and right now I’m at hands and will gradually build up. I haven’t decided the shape, maybe some will need to move, etc. starting with hands.
So I put this screw in just so I had something to attach it to. Actually I think I want the final piece to be metal. That speaks against rearrangeability but maybe it can be rearrangeable by the artist or by space. These are all points on a continuum.
Practically, to get the hands to be useable. They should have several pins? or a mesh inside? or most obviously a threaded bar? but then how do you join that, if you see it, because it’s ugly and galvanised, usually.
Daniel: well certainly all of those methods might work.
Question for self: Why this ‘monument’ at all? What does it have to do with monuments? What do descriptive gestures have to do with anything?
Answer: Right now it’s all in the getting somewhere. Make and then reflect. Have definite things. See what they say once they are finished and have autonomy. Even better, some parts will be re-arrange-able and re-useable. See what its ‘about’ when its finished. If its about anything.
Resist crits until its finished! Don’t take it apart until it’s done! take a full hour!
Reflection: a screw on hand could be immensely useful for re-arrange-ability. Threaded bar it is. Also the easiest. most disappointing that i still don’t need the metal workshop except to angle grind some bar :(
There is a specificity to each hand, each gesture, which presents a different engineering challenge, a different body. Or at least; different levels of fragility