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The Text message as Social sculpture.

In 1979 the artist Joseph Beuys wrote of his objects/actions:

"They should provoke thoughts on what sculpture

can be and how the concept of sculpting

can be extended to the invisible materials

used by everyone."

The recipe for 'everyone as an artist' goes something like this:

* a cup of Humanist sensibility

* pour in social engagement

* equal amounts of democratic ideas of art making

and democratic ideas of art viewing

* draw connections between art and nature

to promote an existential examination that ranges from

critique to celebration.

(notes taken from Julie Rodrigues Windholms essay Reshaping the World Through Social Sculpture, in the book 'Escultura Social')

This blog sets out to examine how language and text can work as social sculpture by way of the recorded text message(SMS).

My intersest in traditional sewing and weaving methods from around the world, the cultural language of the hand made, lead me to explore my own cultural language, the SMS.

The text message can be seen as an evolution of language using the skills of the opposable thumb,

a digital Haiku, an ephemeral moment.

Collected they become a fable, a mythology.

On line they may begin to form a Social sculpture of

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The Text message as Social sculpture.