Mini Project 2, Process post 2 - Jen Herrera

After some thought and reading, I decided I'm going to make my second mini project about touch and consequence. Often we are compelled to touch things, a flower, animal, object, artwork that perhaps we shouldn't, but we act on the need anyways. For this project I will make a small textile piece with crochet flowers and LEDs. The soft, fuzzy, colorful flowers should invite the viewer to touch them. This will send a signal through the conductive thread that will be woven into the petals (acting as a capacitive touch sensor), and turn off the LED that was lit up in the flower's center. So by touching it, you have 'killed' the flower. Trying to touch it again to bring it back will not yield a result, as once the damage is done, it cannot be undone. After a while (?) of no interaction, the flowers will reset for another person to interact with.

Concept sketch:

Test crochet, and test of conductive thread crochet (hint: it doesn't work. Yarn it is!)