“Lost in Lindt”. This is my first sketch from a 12 week collaborative sensory data mapping project with my friend Caroline Chourou, who is doing MA Fine Art at Bournemouth University. You can take a look at the project as it evolves here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/interflux.

 

Our theme for this week was “nothing, not, liminal, the inbetween”. Marcel Duchamp talked about the requirement of a docking space in the mind, that ideas are formed by creating a still place from which they can later emerge http://www.minervaberkeley.org/conferences/the-importance-of-being-playful/2012-speakers/phillip-prager/. I decided to observe the moments in which I disappeared, these data drawings (one per day) contain symbols & duration of time dissolved. I disappeared between strokes in the pool, at the checkout counter in the supermarket, between the tiles of the kebab shop, into the weave of my tablet cover on vibrate, into new tunes. 

“Lost in Lindt” references the fact that this project was started at Easter and because the checkout lady jolted me back into consciousness by talking with me about the ‘default network’ of the brain. We talked about how daydreaming and doing nothing activates the medial prefrontal cortex. She never talks with me usually, it took my absence for her to see me, she recognised where I was. The default network chatters incessantly whilst resting, devours 30% more energy gram per gram than other regions. It therefore requires glucose, so my 70% Lindt purchase was fully justified, for science. 

 

The packages below are items I sent through the post to my friend Caroline, we have agreed to send each other something each week related to the theme, then at the end of the project we’ll make something in response to the 12 items we have received. I sent cut-outs from Lindt packaging, referencing not only my project but numerous conversations we have had personally about our unhelpful dieting habits and discomfort around that issue.