SCULPTURE ELECTIVE..

I am just after finishing our two weeks of the sculpture elective. We were given a brief saying that we were to explore the vital signs and the 5 senses. However on the first monday of the elective we did big mindmaps on the floor and everyone in the  contributed words to these mindmaps. At the end of the class we were told to pick words from these mindmaps and work from that word. I chose the word 'to fold' from touch. We then were told to play around with materials and to start making things and Mike Canning emphasised that this was a labratory and not a studio and we should start making sculptural experiments.Above are some of the basic folds I did.

I used pieces of cardboard to make up triangular shapes that i saw in the folds and stuck them toghether in a way that i thought looked good. When i was cutting the shapes I didnt realise that there was green on the back of the cardboard. However, I liked the effect the green had when I pieced it all toghether.

I liked the shape of this fold that i did and Mike wanted me to work on a much larger scale, so I decided to do a bigger version of this.. I got 9 pieces of A2 cardpaper and stuck them toghether to make one big piece to fold and make something out of..

Making the big piece out of the nine sheets didnt work because it was too hard to fold. so I ended up having to cut them back into individual sheets to fold them. I decided instead I would make a large piece that would go up the wall infront of my desk. I glued bit toghether and manipulated the paper to work in a way that I thought looked good. It didnt turn out as I hoped but I was happy with the end result..

I made these V shaped folds in the first week and I was just experimenting with the different types of foflds I could make.. I had an urge to pour paint down inbetween the cracks and see what would happen. I used blue and red paint which made purple when they met in the middle. It was just little experiment..

I bought a few sheets of acitate and cut them into triangle shapes and cellotaped thaem toghether in the patterns of folds. This was my favourite thing that I made during this elective and unfortunately I didnt discover it until the last day of the elective. What I liked about this was that the triangles could move freeely in different ways to make different forms and shapes..