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Usually when I have a design project assigned for, say, next Wednesday, I let the assignment ferment and steep in my head for a while. Something comes to me by Monday, and on Tuesday night I make it. This was not the case. I had let the assignment sit in my head, but instead of developing into a noble concoction with hints of freshness and wit, it had grown mold and sort of dried on the outside. I had no idea what to do for this assignment. So I went to studio and, by midnight, finally came up with a really boring concept, but it would have to do. I would lasercut a groove onto a piece of plexi and its mirror image onto another, then thread acetate in the grooves and have an ‘architectural light-diffusing unit.’ It took me a few minutes to cad, and then I went, slightly depressed with my poor efforts, to the lasercutter. ”Yeah, I’ll probably be done a little early,” said the dude who was using it. So I waited around until it neared 2 o’clock, and he hadn’t finished. Then the 2-4 am person came, and they said they were going to use their whole slot. Great, I said. Thanks. I went home and sat around brainstorming for a while. I decided to use an idea that I had discarded because it was unrealistic: Pineapple paper. I went to bed and set my alarm for when Star Market opened, a whole 2 hours later. I bought a pineapple and an orange, and I blended those suckers up and poured them out onto a mesh that I found in a closet. I had one test made from just pineapple, and one from pineapple plus orange. I sat there blowing a hairdryer at them until classtime. They were both still wet during class, and also stuck to the screen tenaciously. The fruits were fibrous enough so it stayed together, and I bet if I had done it on some smooth surface, like the hood of a car, I could have peeled them off. I don’t like pineapples because they seem so harsh — they have a tough spiked skin, are incredibly acidic, and are fibrous and tough. It was these properties that made me think that it would be good for paper — the acidity would prevent bacteria and stuff from growing on the paper, and the fibrousness would hold it together. It was a good test because I know that this actually would be possible. That is the first pineapple I’ve ever bought and probably the last. Unless I have a daughter and she has a luau-themed birthday party or something. Then I’ll buy one. But I won’t like it.