How Snails Work
Who am I? What's going on & why?
making dating profiles for snails
Hidden Talents!
my process
My Process
- Observe snails up close
- Find hidden talent
- Hypothesize how hidden talents may work
- Sketch idea for how they could work
- Make this into a snail dating profile
Norms for holding 🐌
- be gentle (don't squeeze shell!)
- spray hand to be moist!
- if you get scared put snail in bin or call me over — no flicking
Snail dating profile based on "hidden talent!"
How do they:
- Move forward?
- Stay upside-down without falling?
- Retract eyes?
- Push out eyes?
- Retract or emerge from shell?
- Climb over razor blade?
Hidden Talent Mechanism
How does it work? (Be specific and detailed!)
- pulleys?
- gears?
- water pressure?
- changing liquid viscosity?
- exerting some kind of force somehow?