Figure Descriptions
Figure 3. The text in this image reads,
We are more satisfied by a closet with extra space. A place where we keep only what is necessary to our lifestyle, rather than by a closet crammed full of clothes. Clothes may be something we actually don’t need a lot of. A laboratory for the concept of distance from excessive fashion, this is where future MUJI basics are created.
The lab’s name, MUJI Labo, follows in large black block lettering.
Figure 7. This graphic depicts six interconnected puzzle pieces arrayed in a circle around a central piece that locks with them all. Each puzzle piece is labelled. Beginning with the piece in the upper left and moving clockwise around they are titled “space,” “technique,” “imaginary,” “people,” “policy and infrastructure,” and “apparatus.” The central piece is labelled “the extended lab.”
Figure 33. This image shows a hand-drawn diagram on a spiral-bound notebook page. It is primarily text and arrows with a general flow working upward from the bottom of the page. At bottom there is the word “ACTLAB” enclosed in a box, with an arrow from it pointing up.
Situated slightly above the boxed ACTLAB are the following series of words and phrases, each with their own upward-pointing arrows:
- Passion
- Emergent Work
- Messy Creativity
- Deliberate Structurelessness (with a note beside it reading “Risk. When’s lunch?”)
- Inarticulate yearnings
This grouping of thoughts are collectively gathered underneath a drawing of an umbrella that is itself labelled “Codeswitch.” Springing from the top of the umbrella, with upward oriented arrows, are the following words and phrases:
- Bean Counting
- Course Catalog
- Structure
- Discourses of Closure (with a note beside it reading “Lunch is at noon sharp.”
- Institutional Dire Necessities
Atop the diagram is a final word, “Texas,” boxed to mirror the treatment of ACTLAB at the bottom.
Figure 34. Below the image of the woman with the teleplasm there is a typed caption that reads,
Initiative teleplasm. Miniature face. Brooch is the medium’s own. Beads are an “apport.” Not on her when she entered the seance room, and not on her when seance concluded. The Gladstone teleplasm, Sept 22, 1929.
Figure 35. The full text of the page reads begins with a short list:
- A. B. C. Flashlight devices, loaded with flash-powder.
- D. Three push-button devices for exploding flash powder by electric spark. 800–1000 watts power. Exposure time 1/30 second.
- E. Phonograph with repeater, attached to shelf on wall. Controlled by Off-On switch attached to T.G.H’s chair.
Following that lettered list is a numbered one, under the heading of “Cameras.”
- Goers Stereoscopic using plates or films.
- Rapid Rectilinear using 5” × 7” film.
- Rapid Rectilinear using 5” × 7” plate (property of Mr. A. C. Whittaker, Manager, Imperial Optical Co. Wpg.)
- Thornton Picard Portrait Camera, using 4 1/4 × 6 1/2 plates.
- Quartz lens camera, using 5” × 7” film.
- Wide Angle lens camera, using 5” × 7” film.
- Seneca Portrait camera, using 5” × 7” plates.
- Woollensak Stereoscopic.
- Doppel Anastigmatic using 5” × 7” film.
- Zeiss Anastigmatic using 5” × 7” roll film or plates. (property of Mr. Hugh A. Reed, Designing Engineer for the Manitoba Telephone System.)
- Rapid Rectilinear, using using 5” × 7” plates.
Figure 36. This image shows an architectural drawing of one room, with three attached cupboard spaces, sketched on a single page. The main room shows an array of nine chairs, each labelled with numbers one through nine. They are oriented in a circle around a central table that itself is positioned directly in front of a tenth chair labelled “M.M.” That tenth chair is screened on all sides, except the side facing the table and all the other chairs. Camera stations are noted behind chairs three and four as well as six and seven—those chairs that look directly at the medium, from a slight off-angle. In a back corner there is a table designated for the note taker, who is situated beside a gramophone
At the center of the image is a list of nine people under the heading “Personnel”, each name and number corresponding to a numbered chair:
- W. B. Cooper
- Elizabeth M.
- Dr. T. G. Hamilton
- Mercedes
- H. A. Reid
- Miss Ada M. Turner
- Ewan
- Mrs. T. G. Hamilton
- Dr. J. A. Hamilton
There are a few small miscellaneous notes confirming the direction of airflow, wiring placement, and sealed and darkened windows.