When I worked with Jo last Thursday, she commented on how she found one my earlier Grids, Layers and Reflections pieces to be quite interesting. So, on Monday, I decided to work on developing it, alongside the work I'm already doing. Having already made a simple relief from cardboard as an entrant piece for my Manchester Metropolitan portfolio, I decided to work with foam board because I like the fact that it is easy to cut.
Like with the cardboard relief that I made previously, I wanted to alternate the height of the different segments. After I cut all the pieces out, the finished product looked like this:
Before drawing the design on, I wanted to first see how it would look if coloured. I didn't want to use paint because it is time-consuming and I'm not a big fan of it. I knew that covering it with tissue paper would obscure the divisions between the sections so I went for coloured plastic:
I quite like the white on red and I think it would be worth making a coloured variation. I then went about drawing on the pattern and also added some more height to some of the sections. This is the finished product:
I still haven't stuck it down because I want to layer the red plastic on it again to see how it would complement the pattern. After looking at this deisgn, I remembered something that Kim told me. She said that one of the ways that I could experiment was by slotting things together. The sharp, straight lines provide good bases for cutting slot holes. I made another section from the foam board, drew on the pattern and then cut into the lines. After measuring the lines, I cut up pieces of card and slotted them into place:
Obviously, the execution needs some work - noticeably, one of the lines isn't as straight as it should be. However, I really like how it adds onto the design and makes it more solid. I also think that this makes an effective use of the photographs that I manipulated on Photoshop (I'll put them on the blog because I haven't done so yet) because I wasn't sure how I would incorporate them. I could cut them up and add them to the card slots. I could also use my words for this. I might also use sheet metal rather than card because it is a lot more robust so straight lines may not be as much of an issue. I could also use brighter coloured cards like blues, reds and yellows - something alongside the work of Schroeder and Starck. Niether of them are exactly postmodern architects but I have difficulty in assimilating colour into my work and becuase they do it well, I think that this is a good opportunity to incorporate their work into my own.
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