Process: Filling in the spaces

Blogger's Labels feature sorts the Tongue Rug dynamically: the tongues with the most postings feature at the top of the list. Based on this ordering, I created a table that documents the posts in time. I then created a second table where I omitted the tongues with only one posting — all undocumented waypoints. Though some of the tongues that have not been documented have many postings, it is because they surface through fictional accounts, they exist only in the imaginary. For instance, as I most likely will not travel to the Swedish bodies of water, these tongues become somewhat mythic.

	2001	2002	2003	2005	2009	2010	#
PA-1		(4)			(3)		(7)
A-10		(1)	(2)		(2)		(5)
A-3	(1)	(1)	(2)		(1)		(5)
LA-5		(1)			(4)		(5)
LE-4		(1)			(4)		(5)
A-11		(1)	(2)		(1)		(4)
A-13		(1)	(2)		(1)		(4)
A-2		(1)	(2)		(1)		(4)
A-9		(3)			(1)		(4)
LA-3		(1)			(3)		(4)
LA-4		(1)	(2)		(1)		(4)
LA-6		(3)			(1)		(4)
LE-1		(1)		(2)	(1)		(4)
LE-10		(1)		(2)	(1)		(4)
LE-3		(3)			(1)		(4)
LE-6		(1)		(2)	(1)		(4)
LE-8		(1)		(2)	(1)		(4)
LE-9		(3)			(1)		(4)
MO-1		(1)			(2)	(1)	(4)
S-1		(1)			(2)	(1)	(4)
S-2		(1)			(2)	(1)	(4)
S-3		(1)			(2)	(1)	(4)
LA-1		(1)	(1)				(2)

As I have not yet posted my map tracings (threads), there is a block of time with undocumented activity. The painstaking tracing of my passage. Yet this is precisely what I like about the blog structure — that you can post back in time. Filling in the spaces.

I'll need to update this table through time. Though there is certainly an automatic way of doing this by tracking the feeds, it is more à propos to adopt a more manual process of tracking data. Central to the craftmanship of creating an object — an patchwork rug in this case — is human error and fancy; the unpredictability of the choices one makes throughout the creative process that can alter the final form.

I am surprised at how regulated these tongues are once isolated from the table, though of course they are constrained by a grid of rows and columns. The diagram also indicates that I work in spurts. This Tongue Rug Table is quite the opposite of the traditional sladdakavring whose essence is slightly chaotic with its overlapping tongues.