CHAPTER THREE: listen to the foil

i tried to make molds from it, but the hollow space in the middle was just asking to be squished into a small ball. when i made small balls of rolled up shine, they kept asking to become even smaller under the pressure of my palms.

i kept trying.

then i stopped, and just looked at the serene roll of aluminum foil still cozy in it's undisturbed box. I borrowed a little bit of it from it's box home. and folded it over, crisply, the way it liked to be kept smooth. I cut the folds at varying lengths and then tried to figure out how to create curves on the foil. wrapping it around tubes didn't do much. However, i remembered the way ribbon is curled- by some steady pressure of a scissor/knife on the ribbon and a sharp pull of the ribbon itself. I tried the same thing using the steady pressure of an unsharpened pencil. it worked to make the foil curved, an imitation of it's original form in the box..