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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Getting to Work

I can hardly believe I have been here almost a week already!  The past few days have been busy ones, but I'm finally feeling really settled down at the park.  I 'm getting used to all the technical lingo used here and cooking communal dinners with my housemates.   My few ventures into town however, have all been interesting to say the least and make me think the culture here may just take me a bit longer...  

Work-wise, things are going well.  I have decided to combine some earth-work techniques with found materials (think linens, clothing, broken dishes, etc.) to make some sort of nest or burrow-like structure here on the property.  I'm interested in investigating some ideas I have about materialism and how it relates to human instinct.  Currently, I'm just trying out some basic construction techniques to get the whole thing off the ground.  Today I experimented with cob-building, a technique that uses mud, sand and straw to make large-scale structures.  If this works out I'll be able to begin construction next week.  

Today, my camera decided to stop uploading pictures, but hopefully I'll be able to fix this soon so I can put up some real evidence of what I've been working on.  Farewell until next time!