Category: Foundation 3D 1 – G1
Anti-gravity
ANTI-GRAVITY
We had to make a thread sculpture but I wanted to try something different and not create a piece where there was so much fluidity in it as I wanted a fixed rigid sculpture so I decided on geometric shapes which I thought was pretty cool.
It was a really tedious process because the thread would eventually change tautness at different angles and the triangles were intersecting so the intersecting thread had to be inserted into the correct gap or my triangles would be deformed. Initially, I used nylon as the main support for the triangles to hold it up and to blend into the background but it was too shiny so I changed it to black thread and it camouflaged really well.
Deadly things can be beautiful
My SEM was about snakeskin and to me they resembled waves yet with a rigidity to it and to capture that I used a metal mesh and bent it to look like the ‘waves’ and I found this paper flower pom pom thing at Daiso which made my work more aesthetic and pleasing because the flower soften the harshness of the metal.
Animal Farm
I had no idea for what animal to create when we went to the secondhand shop but while looking around I decided on doing a hedgehog because we were limited to less than 5 or 10 items. So I bought nails that were blunt, a computer mouse, some tiny gears and a coiled up piece of metal for this hedgehog.
Tha nails were glued onto the the computer mouse using hot glue gun (BAD BAD BAD IDEA) to represent the spines, the coiled metal for ears and gears for eyes. It was a relatively simple and easy, NOT DANGEROUS project because I hot glued everything to each other but still ended up in the ER and it was my very first project.
What went wrong? Well always placed the object you are slicing on the table and be careful of where you hold the object. But while trimming excess dried glue away, I was HOLDING the mouse in my hand and cutting the excess glue off a curved surface… You can guess what happened next. Sliced my left index finger into half my tendon and ended up with a bleeding finger for 9 hours and being in the ER for 5 hours with a hand surgery. Well that was an experience and bucket list checked HAHA.
