Ok, this time the image isn’t thematically related to either the post or the diss, but c’mon!

I am SO fascinated by the fact that we, seemingly instantly, started mining this person’s digital footprint for images to eroticize, found a BUNCH of content, and, of course, got it up on AZMen.com. I’ve had this screen cap lingering in my photos for several months already.

Anyway, obviously, I had to make some religiously-motific glitch art out of the pic—hey, I don’t write the law.

Anyway, despite the distracting influence of politically charged pornography, this week I continued grinding away at the Chapter 1 object and text.

I’m excited to report that almost all of my supplies have arrived, and dry-fitting things together suggests the structure is largely sound (even the custom pieces fit as they should!). It has also opened some additional possibilities that simply expand the overall engineering project while reinforcing the aesthico-philosophic function of the object as an embodied digital interface and the construction of the digitally queered body.

As I’ve continued writing, revising, and quilting together my notes, a more cohesive argument has emerged around the scales of the three objects. The stage now is less about composition and more about arranging, cutting, and gap-filling. The theoretical and argumentative core of the chapter is complete. Though plenty remains to be written about the specifics of the design and production process and tying it explicitly into my research claims as evidence.

This process has also revealed that the chapter itself will take calendar time to fully complete because testing/exhibition opportunities are farther away than my desired draft date. So a section on exhibition feedback will have to be postponed, though I will likely have some preliminary text there based on beta encounters with the object.