Extreme wind and PAPER models aren't a good combo!

We had another workshop with Richard Sweeney today and he encouraged us to use different techniques, such as; concertina folding (which relates well with the brief as it uses a repeat folding pattern to create it), as well as diagonal folding and more scoring techniques. I liked the effect that these new skills created with the same basic material ... plain white paper! However, this time we were allowed to use as much paper as we wanted and we could use adhesives to join different parts together. You might think that this challenge seems much easier than last times, except that this week we were encouraged to use much larger sheets of paper, anything from A3 to A1!! 

I took some photographs of the space in which my final piece will eventually hang so that I could get a better idea of scale, repetition and make the whole brief come to reality. This is the Atrium in the Sheaf Building from a variety of angles so I could get the whole space in.

 

Here are some of the pieces I came up with this time, in some ways they are very similar to last times, but they are made with different techniques.

1) Using a concertina fold along the paper with diagonal folds to create some nice diamond shapes and lovely shadows when photographed. 

2) The same piece as shown above from a wider angle showing the whole piece and the folds in all their glory!

3) Using the same technique of folding and manipulating the paper but with more folds. It has a really nice structured effect.

4) You can see the shadow and highlight where certain area's of the piece are folded and cover other parts. I like the angle of this photograph.

5) This piece was made from a sheet of A3 paper and when I scored it with curved lines and twisted it, securing it with tape, it created a lovely hanging spiral.

 6) This is a similar idea to the previous one, however I used a large sheet of A1 paper and cut some area's away too. This left some lovely empty space in which the back drop is visible.

7) I love the surface created here, it's a really smooth flat area that curves off in both directions. I think it works really well with the straight line near the top.

8) In this image I captured the spiral by photographing the main body of it with a small area of the two sides that come out of it. I like this light and dark areas on this piece.

9) For this image I decided to look at it from a different angle. I love the way you can see the whole curve as if it's being stopped in motion.

I hope to continue to develop my paper manipulation skills further and then take forward some of my better ideas to create a wonderful final piece to be hung in the Atrium. 

ONE LAST NOTE... paper and wind are a bad combo! I had to carry my pieces home in the form they were in and due to the awfully powerful wind, they were destroyed. Looks like I'll have to lay them flat, use them as a template and try again! Practice makes perfect I guess!!