Sunday, 11 December 2016

Visual Dictionary of Everyday Things Intervention (Part 1)

The following page-spread is part from a recent creation I have been working on. In October I was visiting a "coffee group" organised by The National Autistic Society. A while earlier I was on a panel choosing the coordinator of these groups and the woman who got the job invited me to take part in one she was overseeing. It was there that I discovered the existence of a comedy club, where people can take turns been a comedian. 

I jumped at the chance and joined. 

It turned out that the plan is to hold a live show at the Scottish Parliament celebrating NAS' 20th anniversary in Scotland. Half a dozen of us (including me) came up with a bit to perform. 

The bit I devised involves the childhood memory of discovering that book of Everyday Things that led to me to take an interest in science, and involves showing the audience the book in question. 

But I did a few modifications to reflect another thing that's celebrating its 20th anniversary (have a guess). And one modification is the page-spread above (replacing the pages covering "batteries").

The version you see at the top was just completed today.

I'll tell more in a later post. Just now events (including this one) are forcing me to delay my progress on "Part 2".

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