Xerox Project

Word of advice - Its best to explain to the librarians who stare at you like you are a crazy person and possibly a threat to the library why you are sticking your butt, face and feet on top of the scanner before you do it. Lexy and I entered the library nervous and giggly about sticking our body parts onto a paper machine and after getting a few incriminating looks from others, went to the front desk to explain our project. The librarian was bewildered and told us how previous students had been breaking the scanners doing projects like this and told us to be careful and not get our oils on the machine. He also gave us wipes to clean up after ourselves as if our pores were going to excrete masses of oil and dirt all over his machine. I enjoyed when Lexy scanned her butt and the guy across the room narrowed his eyes at us and she made some awkward comment back to him. My favorite was scanning my ear and seeing all the piercings so visibly captured. 

I ended up doing a vague statement piece on walking blindly into danger. 

I used a yellow caution sign that the janitors use over wet spots as my main object. I used copies of my feet leading up to it to symbolize the start of the walk. All over the front side are hands, and on the back are different pictures of a face. On the side are pictures of wide-open eyes. Interpret if however you like but this is the story I imagined - We are very often blind to what is going on around us and walk straight into a trap where we are bound to fall. The hands are plastered to the caution sign because we always figure out we need to turn back when its too late, and then we cant. You can see the feet moving up on the sign as we begin to fall. The faces are the stages we go through to from blind and happy to eyes open and in panic. Then after it is all over, you tell yourself next time watch out.