Dough WritingWriting, for many, is not considered a technology. This everyday, innate task is easily overlooked, especially in today's modern world of high-tech computers, cameras, phones and drivers. It's hard to imagine that at one time people actually invented this thing called the alphabet, making each letter represent a certain sound, and then by combining that with other letters and sounds they created words. But someone did it and we as a society forget that and take writing for granted. We don't think about writing or its intricacies when we are writing. This is partly due to the availability of writing utensils and other materials needed to complete the task. But what happens when these things are taken away from us? By embarking on this task, writing something without using any form of writing technology, including pencils, pens, brushes, and paper, I found a new respect for writing and tools. used to write with. I saw this as the desired outcome, but what surprised me was the amount of thought and planning that the writing required. I don't think about what to write, but rather how to write it, not with what materials, but how to shape the letters to make them readable. Once given this mission, I began to think about nature and came up with my first line of action: a piece of bark with carbon from a burnt stick written on it. It sounded great, how easy it was, then I realized I lived in an apartment with no trees around. I thought about going to my friends' house and collecting materials from their trees, but when I tried, last week's snow and rain had made everything very wet and difficult to work with. The bark was too moldy or malleable and the sticks were too wet to light the fire. I had to find another way. My next idea was to make paper and write with charcoal or carbon on it. I had done this before in elementary school and remembered it being quite easy. We had written a lot of paper for nature journals, so I thought it was appropriate for this assignment. I had everything ready, the blender, the berries to make pretty paper, water, flour and a stick..