The other day I started super-gluing rice together. Around about the same time I developed a cough and read online that cyanoacrylates can trigger asthma so today I ran to Maine Hardware and got a chemical respirator. I figure the slow breathing, nose pain, and discomfort caused by the respirator are a fair trade for chronic illness followed by cancer. Anyhow, I love the translucency of the jasmine rice I chose. This piece isn't quite done, but I like where it is going. It's starting to look like a cross between a crazy hair-do without a head and an electro-magnetic disturbance in a termite colony. I like how when building something out of components that are slightly different from each other, I become increasingly picky about them. There is an ideally shaped rice grain, first of all, with one rounded end and one scooping end. It must be free of fractures, or twists. Sometimes a grain is white in the center. I'm not sure what this indicates but I prefer a smooth translucent grain. I imagine a grain of rice can be graded as a diamond could, with or without inclusion,s on scales of clarity and color. Then I imagine that anything naturally occurring could be graded based on an ideal and I sense my material possibilities.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Rice accumulation
The other day I started super-gluing rice together. Around about the same time I developed a cough and read online that cyanoacrylates can trigger asthma so today I ran to Maine Hardware and got a chemical respirator. I figure the slow breathing, nose pain, and discomfort caused by the respirator are a fair trade for chronic illness followed by cancer. Anyhow, I love the translucency of the jasmine rice I chose. This piece isn't quite done, but I like where it is going. It's starting to look like a cross between a crazy hair-do without a head and an electro-magnetic disturbance in a termite colony. I like how when building something out of components that are slightly different from each other, I become increasingly picky about them. There is an ideally shaped rice grain, first of all, with one rounded end and one scooping end. It must be free of fractures, or twists. Sometimes a grain is white in the center. I'm not sure what this indicates but I prefer a smooth translucent grain. I imagine a grain of rice can be graded as a diamond could, with or without inclusion,s on scales of clarity and color. Then I imagine that anything naturally occurring could be graded based on an ideal and I sense my material possibilities.
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I wonder how large this can scale before the structure can no longer sustain itself. I happen to have an 8kg bag of brown rice--how long do you think it would take to glue all of the decent grains together? I also wonder if the brown rice offers a stronger support (or if the husk would just slip off with the glue).
Also, I'm glad you're not sucking the glue fumes anymore.
MTF
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