Assignment:
Read the sections I highlighted in Touch, A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. A hard copy was handed out at the beginning of the semester. Post your response to the reading on your blog.
Create two stacked paper forms. The first is observed from life. The second is your own design.
Read the sections I highlighted in Touch, A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. A hard copy was handed out at the beginning of the semester. Post your response to the reading on your blog.
Create two stacked paper forms. The first is observed from life. The second is your own design.
Objective:
Observation through sight and touch as well as invention and development of individual idea. Introduce concepts of mass and volume. Continue to explore proportion and develop observation skills.
Materials:
Estimate about four to six sheets of Rives gray paper, wood glue, scissors, Exacto, a vegetable or fruit for observation purposes (prefer to observe from life, but plastic fruit/vegetable is acceptable). Clamps can also be helpful when trying to get glue to set - some are available in the woodshop for checkout. Do not use any other paper besides the paper I assigned. The paper I assigned is extremely thick and works well with stacking. If you did not purchase the paper I assigned, or you run out, you easily find comparable paper at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. Just take a swatch of paper with you and find one similar.
Observation through sight and touch as well as invention and development of individual idea. Introduce concepts of mass and volume. Continue to explore proportion and develop observation skills.
Materials:
Estimate about four to six sheets of Rives gray paper, wood glue, scissors, Exacto, a vegetable or fruit for observation purposes (prefer to observe from life, but plastic fruit/vegetable is acceptable). Clamps can also be helpful when trying to get glue to set - some are available in the woodshop for checkout. Do not use any other paper besides the paper I assigned. The paper I assigned is extremely thick and works well with stacking. If you did not purchase the paper I assigned, or you run out, you easily find comparable paper at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. Just take a swatch of paper with you and find one similar.
Process Work:
Paper stacking is perhaps one of the most frustrating projects thus far. Cutting each individual circle and adhering it together to create a larger shape became exhausting, fast. Though straightforwards in parameters, the process is anything but easy.
Six hours later...
Uh oh. It is drying at a tilt. I had to break apart the layers in order to fix the angle.
Much better!
Yay! It looks like a pear.
Complete:
Original Design:
Inspiration:
I was inspired by my Memento project in terms of structure and color. The idea of space and color were important to the design. Also, I found various screen savers to be of interest, as most presented on my blog are are light moving in space. Finally, tetris. Yes, tetris. The geometric block shapes helped me visualize a meas to achieve the final form of the main, stacked construct.
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