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Past Work - Thirty Works 2021 - Third 10

Part 3 of my submissions for an exercise that calls on me to produce a new work of art for each day of April 2021

Day 21: What's your responsibility as a maker?

Title: Experiment!
(Different context for some existing masks made for my automata projects)

Day 22: You're on a TV show as "an artist".

Make a work that sums you up for commercial reasons.

Title: Me

Day 23: What does failure look like to you?

Title: Failure to Act

Day 24: Use wikiHow to learn a new skill and make a work with it

Title: It's not the thought that counts
(wikiHow is boring so I tried to go a bit further with creating an animated drawing using Photoshop)

Day 25: What is your work's arch-nemesis?

Title: Pretty. Or Pretty What?

Day 26: Write a review of one of your previous works

Title: Wave - Reviewed and Improved

(This started out a caterpillar automaton that was morphed into a wave simulator in last year's 30/30.

Since then I've been thinking of giving it an op-art painting job.

The prompt encouraged me to go ahead)

Day 27: Make a work to give to someone else, and then give it to them.

Title: Seagull Automaton

Day 28: What have you learnt about yourself and your practice?
What from this four weeks do you want to carry on?

Make a commitment.

Title: Commit!

Day 30: Try making that work you've been wanting to make over the past month and never got around to making.

Title: Wiggly fish automaton made from recycled marine plastic

(I was disappointed that the fish I made on Day 8 wasn't self-supporting.

I solved this by mounting it on a piano wire crankshaft inside a recycled plastic box.)