My grand idea to make work with the crickets in the landscape has been thwarted by wind and rain- but I’m not giving up. I’ve managed to collect some sounds and have spent some rainy afternoons learning to program. The other challenge is finding a way of either hiding the crickets or incorporating them (aesthetically) into the installation. hmm. Also, it’s hard to get past just showing off what they can do and really incorporating content....or using them as an invisible tool.

Finally!

This painting machine responds to light levels -- creating red splatters when the light is brighter, and yellow when the light is not so bright. The mechanism is designed to "whap" the screen to knock the paint onto the paper. If it is bright, the motor will hit one side of the screen, and when the light dims (the sun goes behind a cloud) it will reverse direction, go a bit further, then continue "whapping" the screen on the other side.