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INTIAL THOUGHTS AND IDEAS 'Kit for saving the day' and 'Kit for the last day' Almost the opposites, is ‘Kit for the First Day' diametrically opposite, like on a time dial?

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packaging the sun in a box capturing time as an object saving one day and open it up on another, looking into one mirror and seeing infinite reflections

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Alphabet Clock New York: Barbara Rosenthal, 2007. Edition of 12. 4 x 4 x 3". A working Westclox electric alarm clock with exterior painted black and clock face covered with a contemporary digital print photographed from an age-mellowed 1987 original. In fitted cardboard box on which A to Z Clock plus artist's name are hand-stamped in Red. $785 Barbara Rosenthal: “Do we read from L to R, but not tell time that way? Wake up to letters instead of numbers. This clock is read in a normal clockwise direction, but A starts at position 11, since we read from left to right from the upper left corner, which, as numbers, is not position 1, but 11. Time will tell. Time plays tricks.”

Button Pins: Boxed Set 1983 - 2007 New York: Barbara Rosenthal, 2007. Edition of 12.

7 x 7 x 4" cardboard box holding ten unbound 6 x 6" pages enclosed in ten clear plastic bags.

One page has a description of each pin plus an artist's statement; the other nine hold thirteen button pins (2.25" in diameter) made by the artist on her hand-operated button pin machine.

The pins employ photographs, video stills, digitized images and text. The cardboard box has identifying material plus a digital copy of a photograph showing a display of Button Pins.

Signature etching into back of each pin.

Boxed set Includes: “I am not myself today”, “Dust to Dust”, “You Go First”, “Lend / Give” (two pins), "I've Got the World in the Palm of My Hand” (three pins), "Money = Honey”, "Private Eye”, "Nice” (two pins), “Brain Scan: TR 9002.” $1,285 http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/r/barbara-rosenthal.html Barbara Rosenthal: “The medium is not a message. Commonly worn to publicly announce political opinion, here these button pins are provocatively used to voice inner personal thoughts silently shared by.”

Milton:“Rosenthal began her Button Pins after hearing photographer Duane Michals scorn people who wear button pins advertising their politics. Rosenthal uses political media, but externally focused sloganeering is replaced by existential, self-revelatory voices from her head, inwardly or outwardly directed.”

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You & I Cardgame

By Barbara Rosenthal New York, New York: Barbara Rosenthal, 1986. Edition of 12.

3 x 3 x 2"; 150 cards. Typed on a manual typewriter, xeroxed onto white card stock, and cut by a paper cutter. Cards housed in a lightweight paper inner box, which sits in a heavier outer box on which is a digital copy of a photograph of the prototype as a title label.

Barbara Rosenthal: “A packaged card game about Art and Life. Rules are included, but purchasers are encouraged to vary them. Two players organize and trade word-cards, slowly revealing attitudes toward self and other. Originally designed by the artist to play with art/life performer Linda Montano in the window of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Easter Sunday, 1986.”

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Proportion and space.

Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyse a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts. It began in linguistics structures are the 'real things' that lie beneath the surface or the appearance of meaning.

Le Modulor left 1942 - 1954 Proportional system. Le Corbusier described it as a “range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things.”

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Copper Wire Marquette attached to Bamboo skewers.

Proxemics Edward T. Hill 1966, the study of measurable distances between people as they interact.

Hall, Edward T (1966) The Hidden Dimension Anchor Books

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above: Kit box closed middle: kit boxes open top right: 2 copper wire figures and bamboo skewers bottom right; package with label and copper wire figure

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far: left Front view, assembled top: Side elevation, assembled bottom: Top elevation, assembled dimensions: 12cm x 39 cm x 46cm materials: card, paper, copper wire gauge 25mm, bamboo skewers double sided adhesive tape, white satin ribbon.

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Title: “Figures of Speech” Date:31 October 2009 Dimensions: Box closed: 22.5cm x 11.5cm x 15cm Open with lid:50cm x 11.5cm x 15cm Composition: Pine Wood, Copper Wire, Bamboo, Paper, Ink Category: Designer Desktop Toy; On Sale and Exhibition: Object Gallery - Sydney, MoMa - NewYork, Tate Modern - UK, The Louvre, Paris.

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ARTISTS STATEMENT OF INTENT WHY:Circumstances This project is a deconstruction of syntax, the semiotics and their meanings, in this theme; investigating the idiom, Save the Day how and why these communicate and the values to producing this as a physical visual construct.

DECONSTRUCTION can be a method of learning applied to a thing, a theme, a subject, a concept, a theory and so forth. By observation we can trace a map or pathway back to reconstruct. This process can be applied to a new construct and thereby invent a unique or new solution. In our age of abundant information there is ever more to investigate, each layer peeling to reveal yet more layers for discovery, more connections and arcs and cross references.

Australia 16,929,015 Internet users 81.2% of population, Internet Usage and World Population Statistics are for June 30, 2009 http://www.internetworldstats.com WHERE Application Creative learning happens when humans play, we trial, explore, discover and observe, retain and analyse data. One channel is vision, associations and connections. A good place for a ‘toy’ is right in your work space, like a vase of flowers, a vision to reflect on, a diversion, a break to allow subconscious thoughts to accumulate, to reconstruct.

WHAT Explanation Kit to Save the Day Homo sapiens, or humans, bipedal primates in the family Hominidae Meet the bipedal primates in the family Hominidae, they are a happy group of playful individuals, they exist in their proxemic spaces.

Their ‘body spaces’ and ‘postures’ demonstrate the sensed fluctuations and shifts of physical, human boundaries within areas of personal, social and public space.

Bipedal primates know how to impress, ready for work, day or night, 24/7. Burning the Midnight oil. They are figures of speech as your desktop companions, always there to keep you company. They think in abstract forms that represent ideas or mental constructs of things, rather than the things themselves. They use colloquialisms, expressions not used in formal speech. Just what you need for inspiration.

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ON THIS DAY they are playing with the idiom ‘Save the Day’, it’s something they throw around and catch, they are a team anticipating one another and moving like dancers and footballers.

They offer plenty of other idioms to play with, developed by their community; Connotative meanings, these do not represent the inherent qualities of the thing or concept originally signified as the meaning. The power of connotation is that it enables the addresser to more easily to consider the abstract concept and to introduce subtlety into the discourse. Connotation is concerned with how the sign system is used in each message. Semantic content is selected by the addresser and represents that individual's values and intentions. Limiting an analysis purely to the sign system comprised by paradigms and Syntagms excludes key elements in the interpretive process.

ASSEMBLY Open the box, set the platform in your workplace where you can refer to it, in your field of vision. Select a wire figure and insert the pointy end of the Bamboo into the small coiled ‘heel ‘. You choose where to position and insert into one hole on the platform. Repeat this process with all the wire figures. Make an observation of how he figures connect and what expressions each appears to have. This is a restful distraction and has the best rejuvenating effect when attended to every 45 minutes. This in effect will maximize your attention on the real task at hand.

THERE’S ALWAYS MORE TO EXPLORE - SIX SETS: Packs of 6 figures Save the Day Brighten up the Day Cold light of Day Burning the Midnight Oil Head in the Clouds Chasing Rainbows Order online now, delivered in 24 hours, $120.00 AUD, including international postage and packing.

The NOW There is more information data than we can consume in a lifetime, it is readily available; 24/7 on the Internet. We can lose track of time using the internet system to execute many activities. This can dominate and consume much of our energies in our lifetime. We can spend time in front of a computer screen and mostly for free, fast and delivered on the tiniest electronic receiver; the mobile phone device. We can track, be tracked, trek, source, buy, sell, record audio visual anytime, play, bet, navigate, communicate to and from. There has been no other time in history for so much availability and freedom has speech. Each of us reviews our time and the activities we have achieved to have a balanced usage between real social interactivity and electronic activity. Many of us consume more than 12 hours per day and the advantage of working through international time, Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Some of us are asking what we did before the Internet and our compute based lifestyles.

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REFERENCES Hall, Edward T (1966) The Hidden Dimension Anchor Books http://www.vampandtramp.com Structures are the ‘real things’ that lie beneath the surface or the appearance of meaning. Assiter, A 1984, 'Althusser and structuralism', The British journal of sociology, vol. 35, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing, pp.

272-296 Internet Usage and World Population Statistics are for June 30, 2009 http://www.internetworldstats.com Ely.B, Lecture 6: Time as a Cultural Construct: Subverting the didactic, September 2009, onlinecofa UNSW, Sydney, Australia Ely.B, UNSW Lecture7 : Reverb, October 2009 onlinecofa UNSW, Sydney, Australia

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