Something Granny and Annie would appreciate

I thought Granny would be pleased to see my shiny red new sewing machine ( that ma got, thank you!) and Annie would be pleased to see that her birthday prezzie to me is being put to good use

Some more crazy corridor experiments

I started sewing together these pieces made of stretchy fabric. I attached them to the my door and one to Laura's door and tried to show different ways of extending the personal spaces of our rooms into the corridor. My tutor Lucy, referred to them as 'dialogue blankets' but my flatmates called them monkey suits. Either way, they are prep pieces for a blanket that I'm making to focus on the corridor activity and physically depict the interactions that take place in the space.

Casting

A couple of weeks ago I started doing some casts to develop the 'fragments' we are expected to have as a result of the annex project. I start to look at the doorhandles in the flat- the keys to enter the group space of the corridor. I was looking at ways of making it clear that people were free to enter each others rooms. So I asked Claudia to print her hand grip around my door handle using plasticine- then I cast the handle. I used alginate- which dentists use to take casts of people's teeth, so it smells minty. Its a natural seaweedy formula which picks up alot of detail. Then I used plaster in the alginate cast.
It took two attempts to get it right, but I'm happy with how it went. It was a bit scary when my door lock stopped working though. I think alginate got into the keyhole- but everything is fine and dandy now.