The Consistent Variable Project Workbook page 20 SHREDS by risa
I do think it was quite brilliant to see that large sheet of green duck as something waiting to be de-and-re-constructed. I guess every designer did this to varying to degrees, but the folks who stripped and wove it saw something there that I didn’t.
Speaking of seeing things that I didn’t, I love these moments when Diane pops out with a little personality or anecdote. We briefly, gigglingly, considered giving ourselves names like Haiku Emily- given the sides of herself she shows here I though Diane could be interestingly summarized as Hippy Diane, but the names never stuck. It seemed to suit the encounter we were having with Emily, which in some ways was a surface experience only, mediated by computers and images and three lines of text per page. I took a hand at writing haiku here and elsewhere, and though it’s not a good haiku in terms of the turn in perspective that’s supposed to happen, I am glad that I got to say what I wanted about ambivalence. Ambivalence is much more subtle and variegated then dislike- it’s a wavelength-like tension, an inability to decide between love and hate that manages to embrace being both, which, if you can do it, is good for both brain and heart.
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