practice makes perfect

it has been a little while since i actually wove some stir sticks. since i am committed to a couple different woven installations over the next year and more might come up, i figured i should get back in to it. i thought instead of weaving them into existing architecture i would go for free standing piece. Honestly i needed to time myself again and see how many sticks i can weave in an hour so i can better estimate how many to order for the upcoming show in new york. I know i have about 12 days there, with ten hours a day average work time, and i am weaving about 1000 sticks an hour now, the piece below reprents about 2hours, with a few collapses along the way but now that the basic structure is made i can really sail through my time trials. so based on these numbers i should order around 120,000 sticks. that would make the piece bigger than the sumter piece. this doesn’t make sense since i had more time in sumter, but i guess because i had to spend so much time weaving into the railings and going up and down on the lift that i didn’t keep the kind of consistent pace i should be able to in the gallery. i think i will order 100,000 sticks though because it is a nice round number and if i get through all of them and still feel like using more i can always hit one of the several hundred starbucks in the new york area.

i like this structure and i will keep following it through to a logical conclusion.