I was given a jigsaw piece, after having been given a piece of plastersine, having just painted 3 Black blocks , I decided to combined them and created something thing new. This was a synergistic combination bought about by serendipity to create a synchronistic moment for me. – Jig, Jig, Drop. 2021.

Task 1 week 5: Letting objects meet: in relation to entanglements..

Can you do this small material activity remaining intuitive and responsive to the materials/objects that you use.

Choose 3 things objects from your home for a material conversation. These objects should not have any immediate and obvious connection – whilst of course understanding that they have some connection because they are ours and in your environment

Can you look at the objects you have chosen and photograph them or draw them – seeing them and understanding them as themselves and singular.

Then can you start to think about how they might connect, interlink, be bound, stuck, fused, overlap, piled, fold together.
Can they change in identity and become something new or unknown?

Think through the shifting of the materials as you sit them together or cluster them.
Is one object more resistant to change?
Is one more dominant?
Do you prefer one thing over another?

What did you base your original choice on?

What it the shape or form?
Colour?

Importance to you?
Scale?
Ease?
Do any of the objects yield?

Do they start to lose some of their own identity because they are linked to something else?

Do you feel you need to use another material to join them?

What does the join do ?

Is there a new correspondence, a new meaning or knowledge to emerge?

What is the new relationship between these things?

Did anything happen?

If it didn’t why not – is it the material, the process, your intention?

Do you realise after the action that you had a criteria for success or failure?

Where did you recognise issues of not knowing?

Document your object meetings and upload to share work forum on VLE.