Foundation 3D 1 – G1

Making the string structure.

After researching and getting my idea, I realised I had no idea what kind of template to draw. But since I wanted a sculpture with curves I just started drawing curves while visualising a cross. This is when I made my first two mistakes.

The first being, cutting an extremely thin backbone. This made it tear easily.

The second was to cut out the support before poking holes in it, which caused the paper to crumple.

Combining these two mistakes and the fact that the paper was very flimsy, I could not achieve any tension, but I had an idea on how to do it. So I started on my final piece.

The plastic sheet given was not that much different from paper besides the fact that it would not crumple. I started of with the same shape but this time I added slits to make sure the structure staid in place and it ended up looking like the above.

I didnt know where to start threading and decided go with the corner of the structure. But that did not work out as I had no sense of continuation and it was boring to look at. So I snipped it all off. I also hated the little dashes on the plastic from threading in and out. So I decided to thread in a loop, drawing out polygons.
And so my final structure was born. Pretty aint it?

I love curves

So we were told to create a string sculpture that would make the planes visible.

My main source of inspiration was Naum Gabo.

I was drawn to it as it was one of the only sculptures that wasn’t a boring old straight plane. At the time of research I did not think how I could execute it, but I knew I really really wanted to have a curvy structure. Of course that provided me with a lot of hardships later on, but that is or the next post.

A couple who really loves animals

After going to the market with no yield, I went home to find some toys. However I felt like it was not necessary to show the items as I did not use much of it in my work but instead took the remnants of my friends items.
My first item was suppose to be two people hugging. I simply used two poles as the body and stick the other parts to the pole. However I was about done after 20mins , looking around I realised that I was the only one done. Finding that rather odd, I reevaluated my process and started again.

Since everyone was doing some sort of animal I decided to go with a bug, because I had two swirly metal pieces. I chose the yellow basket as the head as it was appropriately round. I then used the goggles as the wings as I saw Duane use sunglasses as his beetles wings. However after looking at this piece, it felt unpolished and unfinished. So I left it and moved on to another piece.

This snail was actually born because there were a lot of these swirly metal things laying around and I thought why not just pull the ends. I mean the brief wanted as little pieces as possible.

But of course that felt a little too much of a cheat so I decided to go back to my bug idea. By this time everyone was finishing and so I just walked around to grab items, which were all naturally small, because they were the leftovers of bigger items.