I wanted to share a little bit of the process of making I wish I could fix you. I actually got the footage for the video by making the lungs in the Riddell stairway during not so busy hours. I sat in that stairway and crocheted for 5 hours. I did not anticipate that this would end up being a kind of performance in a public space. The interactions I had with people who used the stairway were quite humorous and interesting. I sat in a creepy chair I borrowed from food services and camped out, crocheted, tried to get phone reception, paced, and really, really wished these lungs could actually help my subject.
I had never used editing software before and editing the video was very time consuming and fascinating. I know I only hit the tip of the iceberg as far as what the software can do. I had a lot of fun with the whole process.
The work deals with anxiousness, waiting for things beyond your control, making an object that is useful in comfort/but useless in function, and the interaction of creating craft in an academic/institutional space.
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