Thanks Dad

Experimentation and sampling are well underway.  This is what my desk looks like this morning.

What you can see are some speakers that I hope will be the size of the ones that we use on fabric the type and size of the final piece.  If you look carefully to can see my old hifi system which I am using the speaker outlets for an amplified signal.  The result is a lovely stereo quilt!  A big thanks to my lovely Dad for that suggestion!  He also came up with a couple of other suggestions that seem to have made a big difference behind the scenes as well.  50 years as an electrical engineer are still paying off.

This project is made possible with the support of The Cultural Institute at King’s College London, premiering as part of Utopia 2016.

Meet the boys

October 2013: a young woman leans over a medical technician and takes a photograph of a computer monitor with her mobile phone. On the screen are images of the two bundles of cells that the technician is about to implant in her womb. The woman was my partner’s sister, Lynsey Mogg, and the cells go on to grow into her two sons, Rufus and Rafe.

I think this image is one of the most remarkable photos I have ever seen in my life.  

 It’s the starting point for the Paths to Utopia project that will be at Somerset House this summer.  The plan is that  the image will be printed onto fabric and then embroider speakers into it to make a ‘singing quilt’.  The quilt will then play a sound file of the boys when you are in front of the piece.

Oh yes, and this is how they looked when they had a very exciting afternoon out at the park near our house.

This project is made possible with the support of The Cultural Institute at King’s College London, premiering as part of Utopia 2016.