3D Project 2

For the second project I chose my teddy bear as the most precious object.

Bearbear being featured in my 4D work

This teddy bear (I call bearbear) is from my grandma, I thought it was a special gift until I was P4 when I saw another friend with the same bear. Afterwards I learnt that this design of teddy bear is actually a common wedding favour. So for me the quality that I distilled from bearbear is that she is something others have to but is unique to me at the same time.

Keeping that in mind, I thought of the material of hair. I like this idea a lot as hair is a loaded symbol… think of the social norms based upon hairstyling in ancient societies, the shaving of slaves to display dominance, hair checks and regulations in schools and the military. So I feel that while it is something that can be curate (or not) and reflect how it’s owner is like, it is not something entirely unique to each individual. As mammals, hair is one of the characters all humans share.

My collection of hair I cut…

I am also inspired by many female artists who have chosen to use hair in their works. One of them is Mona Hatoum.

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Mona Hatoum, Keffieh, 2003-9, Human Hair on Cotton Fabric

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 Mona Hatoum, Traffic, 2002, Hair, Suitcases

I really like the wide repertoire of themes and emotions she has managed to discuss and evoke with this simple part of our body. It really shows how protean hair is as a symbol/material in art. Of all the qualities of hair, I was apprehensive about accidentally making it too visceral and making people squirm in disgust or horror.

I came up with the idea of making a kaleidoscope with hair. I thought of this as it will allow viewers to encounter hair through a filter (eyepiece, glass, etc) yet scrutinize it.

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However…

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I tried cutting glass…

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Thus I changed my idea to putting hair in a test tube. The test tube was chosen as a presentation method as it also helps to cue the act of scrutinizing.

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I tried to crochet the hair, but it was too thin and snapped very easily. I then tried to crochet more than one strand of hair at once, but I realised that the hair is too strong to be knotted that way.

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I then experimented with other ways of amending the hair.

This is how my final work looks:

All these are my hair, yet they are distinct from each other (it helps also that I have gone through various hair colours too).

3D Assignment 1– Lines and Planes

I have never struggled so badly in another assignment. cry

I started by doing a blind contour drawing and trying to used two parts of the blind contour as the guiding lines for my string sculpture.

However the result was not very desirable and the patterns got too complicated.

So I decided to play around with how a strip of paper can be shaped such that the strings have a nice tension and the paper will have a sinuous form.

I also looked to Math Art for inspiration due to their use of lines and geometrical forms.

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Eventually, I did a sculpture made of many strips. This is my final work.