I really do make myself laugh sometimes.. its an important part of the job. Last night, I was particularly struck by the absurdity of my situation – working back late making fake cum in the office microwave. Its a little bit chunky, but it does the trick….

I had an unfortunate incident with my lambs tails recently. I was New York city and I got a late night call from Australia to say that there was a bad smell coming from my office (where I was keeping two freezers full of 400 lambs tails). To cut a long story short it turns [...]

I am continuing with my investigation of collagen extracted from animal tails that are otherwise designated ‘waste’. I started with the rat tails at SymbioticA in 2006. (See here). Last week I went out to a sheep farm while they were docking the lambs tails. The farmer has saved 200 for me from the previous [...]

I was playing with some of the connectors I have bought to construct my ‘breath dress’ with late last night and, as you do, I stuck them up my nose. They looked quite funny – like two breathing tusks sticking out of my nostrils. Then I thought that maybe they might be some kind of [...]

A couple of years back, Inger Mewburn and I did a project called Parametric Flesh. I always felt that this project had more to come and have had some ideas about how to work back into the original material. Today, I took one of the 3D images from the poster we submitted to the Beijing [...]

Portable water recycling system and carbon credit saving device. Again, some thoughts inspired by Contaminated Life and meditations on material-economic transformations enacted through bodies. I’m not sure why I did the tits all saggy on my model… Perhaps because I envisage that the suit is most likely to be employed by women living in desertified [...]

Oh my poor blog how I have been neglecting you! The quality of our relationship suffers due to lack of camera. And of course those applications… I churn through Obectives and Outcomes like a well oiled machine, and so my purpose becomes modulated to a tight schedule of in and out, call and response, with [...]

The gloves (see previous post) were something that just happened and when they happened there was something about them that seemed to be worth exploring further. However, in order to direct this exploration I have been trying to put my finger on what about them is interesting and relevant to my practice. Gloves and food [...]

I was feeling really grumpy and restless the other night so I thought to remedy the situation by making something, anything, to get me started again. I had already managed to score a couple of boxes of transparent, powder-free vinyl gloves from the chemistry store in order to keep working on some ideas that arose [...]

A friend of mine has been teaching a creative writing course this semester and I decided to do some of the exercises that she was giving her class to get my writing muscle working along other than academic lines. One of the exercises I chose, was to write about an encounter with somebody who was [...]