my plans proposed

last semester i looked into soldering circuits for LEDs which i enjoyed so I thought I'd approach a project that involves multiple functions like sensor triggers, movement, sound, and having them programmed to work together. So in looking over things iv done previously that i would have liked to pursue in making it move somehow, I made a fortune cookie shaped 'thing' that I glued my own hair to (pictures of 'thing' above). This 'thing' looks quite a bit like a vagina, so in embracing the two themes i wanted to see if i could make latex flaps that would cover a gadget that would move when someone walked past this hairy vagina thing, also because of the shape id likely have to make two of these so its nice and balanced. As the flaps are moving (to incorporate the fortune cookie element) and try to program sound into the movement I'd like for it to tell whoever has walked past and triggered the sensor their fortune. With the audio I was thinking of exploring concepts of shamans, oracles, prophets and general spiritual 'meaning of life' advice in a way that follows the random non personal predictions of a fortune cookie. I don't want the 'oracle orifice' to be taken seriously, and I'm not sure why anybody would, but the experience of being addressed by an ambiguously genital looking object with apparent spiritual insight i thought would at least be interesting.

Researching 'talking robot vaginas' has been nothing short of strange but there's Jamie McCartney's 'Great wall of vagina' which is approx 400 casts of vaginas from women of all different backgrounds and ages. It's quite a confronting piece of work with how many there are, they're to scale in white plaster with lifelike detail and they're all uniquely different. In an interview McCartney says its to show the diversity and beauty of the vagina, which i think is great but for my work i might need to be careful to not portray the vagina as a degrading joke.

• Ladies feel free to comment on the topic im curious about your how you respond to vaginas being used in humour.

So in trying to find a family friendly video to post that would relate to my work i found a bit of an 'everyone loves raymond' episode where Marie (Raymond's mother) accidentally makes a huge vagina in her art class while trying to make an abstract. The characters in the show react in different ways that  I thought worked well with my concept when relating art with the ambiguous vagina as an icon and humour.