Exploration 05: Another Remix

What I’m remixing

If I had more time and wasn’t juggling other finals, I would have loved to remix my very first project and do something with wax again. But with the time constraints, I realized I was already creating a remix for my Creative Coding final, so it made sense to use that work for this exploration as well.

I started from a Creative Coding worksheet on object classes: bouncing “balls” rendered as custom shapes. My original version turned the balls into hearts with a button that adds more.

The remix

I reimagined the bouncing hearts as a self‑portrait sticker wall that uses cut‑out PNGs of me in drag. Each click adds two new stickers in a shuffled order, and a small burst of floating “glam” emojis ripples across the canvas. A speed slider lets you push the chaos (or calm it down). When all 22 stickers are on screen, a surprise GIF and audio stinger take over, then you can reset and start again.

Citations / Inspirations / Thank-yous

This remix builds directly on techniques from Creative Coding, especially our object class and array worksheet. Coding is not my forte, so I used some AI assistance for this remix. Something we were explicitly allowed to do for the final, as long as we explained which parts were AI-generated and how we adapted them. Thank you to everyone who was on the floor while I worked on this, and especially to Reverie for continuing to check my code even when she knew most of it wasn’t originally written by me, and for pushing me to actually learn it for myself. Thank you to my cohort for being a system within itself, a machine of sorts powered entirely by love.

One thing I learned about myself as an exploratory maker

I enjoy making things in the physical world, and I really, really hate code. I find myself being extra stubborn about learning it...especially when AI tools can bridge the gap for me. FUCK CODE!!! (Unless it’s Arduino code <3). I love bringing drag and performance themes into my work, and that keeps me excited about making, no matter the medium.