In week 3, we had to bring all our junk materials and assemble our animal in class.

 

I had only brought the three items that i had bought at the Thieves’ Market the previous week. After seeing my classmates’ pile of junk, I started to worry if I had brought enough. However, because I had a very clear idea of where everything should go, I decided to put down my worries and just start on my owl. The first thing I did was to cut out the wire from the headphones I had gotten for the eyes. Then I glued on the headphones to the remote control with a hot glue gun.

 

I then went on to cut the handle off my tongs. I was quite afraid of this part as the tool had made such a loud and scary noise during the demonstration. For the first side, it made a really loud noise and I moved the tool up and down a lot, which was what (I think) caused the cutting to take such a long time and make a lot of sparks. For the second side of the tong, I decided to keep the cutting tool still and to my surprise, it was almost silent and there were no sparks at all. This might also be because I used a different cutting tool for my other side.

 

I couldn’t decide the placement of the wings on my owl at first: do I put it in front like most photos I see of owls? Or at the back, spread out, like it was about to fly? I also had the problem of limited space as my remote control was rather narrow to fit the wings nicely. Calista then suggested that I put the wings one in front and one at the back. I tried it out and really liked the look of it.

First of all, it set a comical tone to my owl and it looked like it was singing, which I think portrayed the character of a psychotic owl really well. But also, I think it gave the owl a more dynamic silhouette, which brought more attention to the owl and made it more interesting.

 

Here is the final outcome of my psychotic owl!

 

The yellow bottom is only used as a stand to hold my owl up for photo-taking!

All in all, it was really fun making this and I am glad that I kept it simple, using pieces to represent only the most iconic parts of an owl: the eyes and the wings.