magnifying lenses are stupid

i hate sketch up too. when i think green axis it should intuitively know and just make the shape on that axis WALL NOT FLOOR PLEASE

Why? because they're impossible to fix to a wall. ROAAARRRRR.
I went to modern plastics last week and looked at getting acrylic rods to somehow drill into the walls and fix the lenses to. It cost $42.90 per 2metres for the 10mm stuff, and can only be bought in 2m lots so i would be looking at getting roughly 4 metres. This isn't too extortionate but the man there reckoned that it would not be able to be glued to my lenses and that i would have to find some sort of glass clips. I didn't entirely believe him so went back to school and talked to Greg and he said the same thing, its too hard to try and glue things to a convex surface. feck. Greg suggested the above as a solution but i think it will look to heavy compared to the work, wooden structures overshadowing my little objects. fuck me i am stressing out right now. need icecream and wine.
I went to Atlas glass and had a good chat to the hairy man there who will win at movember at he said 'go and die, you cannot get anything to clip on to curved glass nor can you drill through it', and with that i hopped back in to Jim's Holden barina and promptly got lost somewhere in Waitakere City.
Eventually i found Cambrian plastics, the lovely people there cut me a sheet of acrylic for about $10 cheaper than the price they quoted me which was $10 cheaper again than anywhere else i rang. Score! except when i got home i found that he cut it slightly crooked so it does not fit my light box. wanker. Not to worry i will have to go back and get acrylic for Francoli's light box too so i can say hey motherfucker do your job and cut this right. Everything is a little bit intense right now you see.
I got another sheet of acrylic so that i can drill through it and hammer little nails in to it to hang my work from. yeaaah. If i decide to do this i need to find some longer square hooks and ones that aren't that heinous gold colour. maybe i could paint the hooks a see through colour. excellent.

Presentation ideas

I just bought the jewellery box on trademe, unsure if i will use it but i want to try out a few of the ideas that have been buzzing around in my head. The table above is a PRIME! it transforms into a sewing machine desk thing which is highly appropriate, dont know how much it will sell for but it would be nice to have my work on. I want my display to be wooden, yellowy, comfy looking yet antiquey... get me? Imagine my desk when i'm 80 years old and that is what my exhibition will look like, a personal work space that has a museum feel because its all fragile and old but still looks inviting to touch and personal. yeah. I'm going to study english next year.


Cool little magnifying glass^^ i am enjoying the little edward clippy hands on either side of it which will be prime for holding on to little hairy things. yaaaaayges ago i considered making lots of little objects and displaying them in a 'shadow box' like the one above. Granny Cush has one with all sorts of things in it like porcelain figurines, plastic and tin toys, mercury in a little bottle (my favourite), china shoes, lots of little oddities. I think her little shelves were formerly used to house printing blocks?? anyway they're way cooler than that one^

I have been trawling the internet trying to find magnifying glasses and lenses to present my works underneath. I'm yet to even really think about the lighting which will be a bitch.
I've found a lot of things that i think would suit my works for presenting them in or on top of, little wooden jewellery boxes, old library card catalogues, desks, etc. I really want a sort of museum aesthetic, but not so removed from the audience. The above video is a nice way of viewing the crafted object, travelling through the hair tunnel to get to it. I want the audience to get that feeling of abjection and the messy hair tunnel does this, leading to the fascinating obsessive object that is the crafted hair. The microscopic view moving around and through the object is very visceral, the circular framing of the tunnel is like Mona Hatoum's 'corps etranger', somehow more bodily... like wee hole. holey hole hole.

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hair woven in to an existing tatted piece of lace. Looks like a dirty smear, a web... boring.
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