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Table of Contents<\/strong> – 2018<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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This is a table of contents,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and here is one temporary reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it represents a journey from the earth to the moon and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began with the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was tasked with sorting out my parents\u2019 home, the home where I grew up, that hasn\u2019t changed much for many many years, only decayed. I noticed the table, the one my dad made maybe even before I was born, the one that\u2019s always been there as part of the archive of the home. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The table held our old bakelite Bush 22 inch television. My earliest memories of it relate to the Apollo missions, and in particular Apollo 8 with the first manned flight round the dark side of the moon. Later, the lunar landings. My memories are \u2013 as early childhood memories are \u2013 not necessarily concerned with the expected events but other things peripheral to them. \u2013 I mostly remember my mum\u2019s emotional reaction to the men in space. \u2013 I suspect the residual visual memories I have of seeing the lunar landings are concatenated, jumbled and falsified, but images of the moon\u2019s surface on a black and white screen are a ghost image over my earliest memories of home and technology. Without technology I would not know the moon as I do, yet with the t  v taken out of the picture, the table and the moon retain a domestic\/cosmic connection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wondered if the surface of the table could stand in for the surface of the moon and how I might mediate that connection with technologies available to me now \u2013 not just by replacing one screen with another \u2013 it needed to be more human than that \u2013 by some form of interactivity \u2013 a collaboration of sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suitcase, another object from the archive, is where the aforementioned journey is archived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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