Our inaugaural sockateer for sock B!
:work hereafter officially referred to as: B(2)
Dear Sockateer L
Thank you for your wonderful addition to sock B and for being our first artist to alter B. I have photographed your addition here and reference the very appropriate source of inspiration on which you based your alterations (being ‘National Poetry Day’ when you received it). Link to poem by Toni Thompsom entitled ‘Socks’:
http://www.helium.com/items/976763-poetry-socks
delighted to see some creative writing in here to go with the maths!
I’m not quite sure how to measure B(2) – the addition is not adding to actual overall length so not sure if this is an extra or not – will have to ponder this matter at length.
I send B onward to Elena with alterations of my own.
Thank you
s
NB: sockateer L is the very talented and lovely Lisa Watson, find her unsock related work here:
http://www.lisawatsontextiles.co.uk
and her blog here:
http://lisawatsonmakerandeducator.wordpress.com
Very Keen Sockateer!
I have made my alterations and have posted it on…
Weight of sock = STILL 13g!
Weight of package = 41g (same jiffy bag, but with another layer of stickers over previous address, and extra stamp.)
Length of sock now 26cm.
Posted 1pm 2nd October 2012.
Unexpectedly, sock A arrived in the post instead of sock B this morning. I am Very Excited.
But I am also now perplexed… should I do what I originally thought I might do, or shall I directly respond to what S has done. Could I do both? Could interacting with Sophie’s contribution, or ignoring it, add something to the maths…
The maths…
I have absolutely no idea what Dan is on about. I quite like this. It makes me feel a little like a lab rat, but one that is aware of the experiment, and is trying to second guess what the man in the white coat is doing. Meanwhile, I play with the sock. I’m tempted to turn it inside out and do something hidden.
Measurements have been taken…
Weight of package, unopened = 39g
Weight of packaging and letter = 26g
Weight of sock = 13g
Length of sock = approximately 25cm because it is stretchy and is bent at the heel.
Oh, and it is the same jiffy bag I sent to Sophie, I can see my label underneath hers.
It arrived at 10.15am, 2nd October 2012.
e
Dear d and e
All these things and more are exactly the crux of why I was stuck in ‘prevarication hell’ for a week – this feels so momentous but at the same time it’s ‘just a sock’: the collision of the two together is quite a cataclysm!
I was also very much aware that as I had to start, what I did might set a precident….. – I think we must take what we want and discard what we want as it feels right – so if a sock needs weighing then weigh it – if not don’t. I measured them as it was important to the idea of what I was going to do but I don’t want to get too stuck in a list of things or we will be wearing white gloves to handle them and the socks will have to travel by Securicor!
Thinking that I may have to go to some revision classes to understand the big sums…
s
Thanks Dan…
more questions arise…
a) What do you mean by efficient? How can the passing of the socks become mathematically more efficient if we are in practical terms, just posting a sock?
b) Graph theory – If the maths comes first, do we end up with a sort of paint-by-numbers sock swap? Is sock-swap-by-numbers still art?
c) Quantitative value – we should take measurements?
i. Weight of sock before and after each posting/alteration?
ii. weight of packaging?
iii. how long can we use the same jiffy bag?
iv. length/width of sock before/after?
v. cost of postage?
Do the quantities measured affect/reflect the qualitative value of the sock
e
