Michael says, "The idea is that we make a web page where there are three levels: the mola, the texts, the scraps. Each of the first two is linked across its entire surface (that is every part of the graphics, every word of the text)."
Nancy says, "*Every* word?"
Michael says, "*Every* (but Storyspace allows us to make phrase links. The idea was to defuse (diffuse) the hierarchy by spatializing the links"
Michael says, "the weave..."
Michael says, "The front door would be the mola, which will be linked across its entire surface to the underlying texts (which of course may include graphics). The mola would contain each of our "stamps" which would link to the single "signed" screen from each of us; I think of this signed screen as a stitch. (There can be more than one of each of our stamps on the mola surface, however, only one of the stamps should lead to the stitch..) We do not necessarily stitch (sign) each of our contributions but we can if we feel the need to (but we may in fact also stitch each other's screens). "
Carolyn says, "Yes, okay, the "stamp" is my identified voice, and I can put that in someone else's text, or my own. Or not any of these, but only on the single screen which identifies each speaker?"
Michael says, "You can put it on any screen but *one* has to be the entry point for where you weave from the mola."
Carolyn says, "The mola homepage is where we each have an identifying graphic, and that's where we each "begin" as it were"
Michael says, "Yes and no, we begin at the level of the texts where we have a statement"
Michael says, "From the mola we would link to various texts which we grab from this session, email, things we write for this project, or collected stuff from others (like the ones I sent you all in scrappy text, these like the cloth segments which quilters use). Each of these texts could in turn be linked to other texts, back to the mola or to the scrap pages (which are gateways to other web sites, literally the scanned scraps of handmade paper like what Suze showed us). Caro and I would create the mola page, integrating the stamps. We would need you UMich folks to do the eventual map from the mola to the web that we create from our linked texts (all four, or five, of us) in Storyspace ... We would do this web in stages, Caro and I doing a first pass, passing on the document to you two (three) by Tuesday or so, getting it back from you and relinking until every bit was linked... In the storyspace doc, we would each indicate links back to the mola and to the scrap (gateways) that you would also have to map.."
Nancy says, "okay. so the mola quilt will have lots of pieces which will link to one destination text and then the texts will be interlinked? Maybe we cannot even predict what will happen?"
Michael says, "Exactly! or that's the hope... Nor can others who will encounter this weave/quilt"
Nancy says, "so shall we start"