Phone camera working again! Dropped it and that seemed to help..
Rough practice of routers.
Fine liner, ink with a scratchy old brush and the scrumptious divinity that are Posca pens.
So…. going through the process of trying to figure out what format I want to present this final part of “when worlds collide”, yet again, I can’t make up my mind. My immediate choice is always a zine or panel of drawings. This is due to my own resources and learned techniques, and, I like it.
The drawings will consist of images portraying various people’s lives and where they keep their WiFi routers, showing how normal this is to have this amazing and groundbreaking piece of technology in very “normal” everyday lives. Then, whilst on a tube to Wilsden Green (no relevance, just sayin’), I had a moment of clarity and wanted to make a WiFi router/box out of card board and tape, so it looked a bit shit. This is to portray the disposable nature of said router as I have become fascinated with the shapes they come in, most of them, looking like a robotic stag beetle, or mermaids purses (of which I have been interested in the passed and have a collection of dried ones.. All called Stephanie).
It is a “defining moment in history” that this “Pandora’s box” (extra heading slipping in!) is an ever reoccurring “obsolete” piece of “technology”. This Internet-super-high way-wireless connection-hyper reality-drive (yes, I am a hitchhikers fan) is effectively just jumping on so called “garbage band waves”, originally used for hackers to hack, radio’s to radiate, microwaves to zap and super geeks to explore black hole theories. We are all dishing out way to much money to hitchhike on this miscellaneous band of mulch but now it is in our own homes and so wonderfully accessible. We expect it, depend upon it which has now made it a consumable product with its own bit of plastic waste every time you change provider, it breaks or you just are told you have to get a new one for it to work anymore.
Another idea, instead of the cardboard router was to project drawings of routers and where people keep them in their domestic settings, but using a very digital and in-tactile format..... then I realised I still am to buy my camera, get my phone fixed and learn how to take a photo of something well… so will probably just do the drawing...