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A soft armour - final documents (1-4-2013)

109 days online: soft armour

suit thoughts: [[1]] suit future: [[2]]

A soft armour

One of the first days I wore my three piece suit, I saw a flash of blue. I caught it on the inside of my suit. In white thread. I never saw a kingfisher before.

There is an oil stain on my right sleeve. A late dinner with friends. It has been there for 83 days now.

A woman laughed when she scanned the QR code on my back and saw the drawing of the beheaded man. I don’t know why she laughed. He’s always bothering me, scratching my leg.

Something Thoreau said about suits: “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes “.

Inside out of sight. Insight outside.

An old man I met on the street told me how they all stored their best suit in the bomb shelter.

Wa(n)(i)ting to uncount days.

Is a landscape a collection of threads? Is a suit a field you can walk through?

I’ll only fight windmills when they spoil the view.

(I wore a three piece walking suit for 103 days. Every day I embroidered a drawing or text on the inside of the suit. Slowly the outer world crept inside while the inside world moved outside. A QR code was embroidered on the back of the suit and linked to a website with the images. The suit turned into a mindmap of what happens when you walk through everyday life in a soft armour.)

day-to-day documentation here: a soft armour

and of course you're very welcome to visit my website: moniquebesten

(in the beginning)

I'm not sure what I'm doing here - I'm only drawing lines, building bridges, constructing roads to get lost on - but isn't that what architects do? - these days I live in my words - like I've been doing for many years - trying to turn them into stepping stones, building blocks - an architecture of words - that is where I start - that is where I always start - what word could I live in? - a firm word but soft at the same time - a long and spacious word - with lots of o's - like orbit but longer - osmosis - optometrist - octobermorning - octoberopacity

more words (and images) here: monique in weimar or for the walking suit project, go here: a soft harness

and of course you're very welcome to visit my website: moniquebesten

Media:Readinglist.pdf

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+A soft armour - final documents (1-4-2013)
+days online: [http://www.moniqueinasuit.blogspot.com soft armour]
+<gallery>
+File: A-b.jpg
+File: Smoke.jpg
+File: Fuck.jpg
+File: Flying.jpg
+File: Flowersblooming.jpg
+File: Suit-inside.jpg
+</gallery>
+suit thoughts: [[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/images/Soft_armour_%26_suit_thoughts.pdf]]
+suit future: [[http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/images/The_suit_future_-_the_future_suit.pdf]]
+'''A soft armour'''
+One of the first days I wore my three piece suit, I saw a flash of blue. I caught it on the inside of my suit. In white thread. I never saw a kingfisher before.
+There is an oil stain on my right sleeve. A late dinner with friends. It has been there for 83 days now.
+A woman laughed when she scanned the QR code on my back and saw the drawing of the beheaded man. I don’t know why she laughed. He’s always bothering me, scratching my leg.
+Something Thoreau said about suits: “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes “.
+Inside out of sight. Insight outside.
+An old man I met on the street told me how they all stored their best suit in the bomb shelter.
+Wa(n)(i)ting to uncount days.
+Is a landscape a collection of threads? Is a suit a field you can walk through?
+I’ll only fight windmills when they spoil the view.
+''
+(I wore a three piece walking suit for 103 days. Every day I embroidered a drawing or text on the inside of the suit. Slowly the outer world crept inside while the inside world moved outside. A QR code was embroidered on the back of the suit and linked to a website with the images. The suit turned into a mindmap of what happens when you walk through everyday life in a soft armour.)''
+day-to-day documentation here: [http://www.moniqueinasuit.blogspot.com a soft armour]
+and of course you're very welcome to visit my website: [http://www.moniquebesten.nl moniquebesten]
+<gallery>
+File: soft armour.jpg
+</gallery>
+(in the beginning)
 <nowiki>I'm not sure what I'm doing here - I'm only drawing lines, building bridges, constructing roads to get lost on - but isn't that what architects do? - these days I live in my words - like I've been doing for many years - trying to turn them into stepping stones, building blocks - an architecture of words - that is where I start - that is where I always start - what word could I live in? - a firm word but soft at the same time - a long and spacious word - with lots of o's - like orbit but longer - osmosis - optometrist - octobermorning - octoberopacity</nowiki>
 more words (and images) here: [http://www.moniqueinweimar.blogspot.com monique in weimar]
-or for the soft harness, go here: [http://www.moniqueinasuit.blogspot.com a soft harness]
+or for the walking suit project, go here: [http://www.moniqueinasuit.blogspot.com a soft harness]
 and of course you're very welcome to visit my website: [http://www.moniquebesten.nl moniquebesten]
 [[Media:Readinglist.pdf]]