New Ideas

All of my card models were made from an A1 sheet of mounting card.  This inadvertently led me to a new idea.  The remainder of the card became a negative shape and I realised that this was a new opportunity to develop ideas:

The above photo is not the card piece itself but the drawing of it.  What I like about the shape is its curved and square qualities.  I wrote in my sketchbook that the unclear shape represents confusion which is an idea that is not out of place in a postmodern society.  The squareness of the outside and the curves on the inside could also represent cracks within society or a rigid society being eaten away at.  This could link to an idea of a dystopic society and (as I wrote in my sketchbook) a communist society is seen as the ultimate dystopia pecause it pretends to benefit the people when it doesn't.  The symbolic colour of the Soviet Union was red so I decided to use this colour on the model. 

Leaving sections white was unintentional.  I didn't add the red layer until I made the model with white card - a mistake as I found out.  It was too fiddly to cover the inner curves with the red paper.  Rather than only leaving the inner curved sections white, I left other parts white too.  The only way I can describe it is that I went for an 'edam cheese effect.'  Overall, I like the effect it gives to the model. 

I had originally intended for this model to be sculptural.  However, lay down flat, I decided that it could also be architectural.  I have been working on ideas in my sketchbook on how to develop it into an architectural piece.  Primarily, my main concern is the pincer-like struts that stick out from the side.  If they were walls on a building, they would be very close together.  My understanding from the website PPS has made me realise that the pincer form is far too enclosed for a building.  Not only does it disinvite movement towards it, if it was a building, the pincer part wouldn't get a lot of light.  So, I have been working on changing this. 

At present, I'm bouncing around three possible ways of dealing with the issue.  In addition, I am also contemplating whether or not I want to put in an entrance.  I have decided to use some of my photographs and the colour red to decorate the facade.  The photographs will most likely be the tree images as I think juxtaposing the natural image with the robust structure will look visually interesting. 

I am still contemplating adding words onto the sculpture.  If I do, I have to consider whether they would be on acetate to function as a window or printed onto the facade itself.  Also, I will have to think about the size and colour of the lettering.  More importantly - what will the words say?  I could put in my random words; I could do what Kim says and write words that I want to convey to the building users e.g. peace, serenity; an idea that came to me today was that I could write down a collection of words and sentences that I think sum up postmodernity e.g. quotes from the news, prominent world events, dictionary definitions of postmodernity etc.