At this point I’ve come to a bit of halt.
I know I want to research the science behind genetic modification some more.
I know I would like to grasp a better understanding of what outcomes i really want to make so I can’t work towards them more pragmatically. although i stand by my natural process of letting the project lead the outcome, i think it would be beneficial for me as a designer if i found a stronger sense of what i really enjoyed making in terms of craft. why do I like creating speculative jewellery? I think i see body ornamentation and body-object interconnection an obvious output because it marries the possibility of making physical objects that feed my desire for aesthetics (in a reductive, i-like-to-ornement-my-own-body kind of way) and the myriad of oddities that happen when we intimately interact with physical things.
jewellery is symbolic, intimate, sensory, instructory.
it holds potential for instumentaltisiton, comradeship, community cohesiveness, pretest.
How can I find an alliance between one or some of these principles with the trustworhty nature of natural indication.
autogpahic means that something needs no translation. its index is apparent.
is it as simple as finding something that needs amplification and finding autographic means to visualise it? why would it be on the body? perhaps the body is a sensual intimate place for the new connection to information? or perhaps the body is a communal and symbolic places? perhaps the traces constricts the wearer? pass the traces releases the wearer? the gas mask is an body ornament that releases the human body. how could other ecological traces help to release the body?
another alternative to wearable objects is a metaphorical/critical reason. the object is tied and ingrained in a greater narrative. for instance; the object could gather information as its passed from person to person, worn in different ways gathering different microbial data.
the object could be critically designed to be bough and the proceeds generated reinforce the negative system the objects represents. plastics necklace profits fund fossil fuel company. naff.
I think i ulitatly want to make beautiful and word bodily objects that infer the damage of human kind though addressing something localised.
lastly, i realise i must find a more concise subject matter. this will be the largest task. to do this i might browse various websites – medium, eflux, thane with the accent bacterial article, natural geographic, new sientic ETC
THINKING RESEARCH 