Planning.

I have been planning some more time on the laser cutter, this time I have been getting technical and mathematical!

I wanted everything to represent certain numbers and information I found about the telephone exchanges in Manchester...

In 1879- first list of subscribers for the T.E;s was 125 (a handwritten list)
In 1881- that jumped to 420, an increase of 236%... INTERESTING. Seems like an excessive increase...

So.. to keep in with being absurd (Eva Hesse- series are a way of absurdity, the huge crossbar exchanges look strange and art like themselves...) and obsessive , I have planned out everything and measured everything that has some link to these numbers...

EG 420 circles, 5 sheets of 25 squares (all representative of the t.e visually).

Hopefully this will start to form more meaning to the work, and I think as it is quite ordered in a different way, different to work that I have already done...Could end up being boring... or quite different...