By Positions through Iterating, I realised my interest lies in the relationship between the technology of image-making and the images it produces—the joy of making images.

I decided to make something quickly in Positions through Contextualising, reading, writing and making, believing that what I seek lies hidden behind these works. They say nothing, but show something. (In last term’s feedback, Houman describes my work as “the visual is your approarch”, I identify with this description.)

I choose “the apple logic”. This time I try to place writing before practice, attempting to provide myself with some guidance about “What kind of apple do I want?”

(Reiterating once again, I will making a lot of practices in this section, in order to form the “apple”, they may appear vastly different, but they will form the same apple. These ongoing, diverse direction of advancement for dots is actually my iterations.)

This time, I wanted to randomly start with any technology and examine its relationship with the images it produces, making something for myself as examples quickly. While browsing Moodle aimlessly, this description about laser cutting caught my attention: “Color is the language of laser cutter.”

This statement embodies the relationship between the technology (laser cutting), how the technology is used (what files are required for laser cutting machines) and the image it produces (the finished cut file), so I decided to make some experiments based on it.

Here is the font：

TalkToALaserCutter-Cutting.otf

TalkToALaserCutter-Engraving.otf

And, at first I actually wanted to use the font to cut something like “Help! I’ve turned into a laser cutter!” or “Cut this sentence for me!”, but the slots for the laser cutter at CSM were just too hard to book… (Even though I haven’t given up yet)

(However, I made a printer version of it, look! I believe it reveals something equally interesting.)

Anyway, when establishing connections between the means, tools, and ends of image making, something like “I become a printer/laser cutter” emerges.

Note from myself in Week 2:

When I tried to think about what I got out of last week’s work, I realised that I don’t like things belike: In some parts of the work process, I must use language to pull the “meaning” out behind my work. But, once it crystallizes into a word, it becomes a fixed thing…some of the flexibility is lost, that frustrates me.

So instead of doing that, which I most likely won’t, I’ll try to find an alternative way for my work to push it forward, such as thinking loosely, working consistently on tiny tasks, or answering questions with questions.