While working on my first project for the ''digital tools in the sculpture studio,'' I came upon one of those "Aha/ Duh" moments, in which something so obvious yet so amazingly eureka becomes apparent in a flash. This quasi-happens quite often to me, as I have no common sense. But every once in a while, I experience the real thing.

So, I was playing with the Illustrator Blend tool, generating some shapes which I will print out, glue on wood, cut out from the wood, glue onto a board standing up, and -here's where I get a bit confused- screen plaster over it, drop it into some suction/ vacuum thingy, and end up with a skin that can be used as a mold, for resin I think...

Anyway, one of my pipe-dreams for a few years has been to build an actual TheySayMascot, a whirring physical, landscape in robot cage/universe for the TheySaySmall world.

I thought I'd start with the Internal Landscape. I want it to be recognizably a landscape, but also recognizingly a digital derivative, and as I was playing with the individual slices from the blend, moving them about, completing them, while thinking about masonite and plaster and plywood, I realized DuhAha!

Each of those slices is a slice of wood. Separate them with little dividers, and you have a sort of contour map/wireframe landsacape. A 3D object that is clearly digitally derived

Of course, on my way out that day I noticed that the desk at the entry to the building was made exactly that way...