Final Piece

Although the exhibition is on Wednesday, I still need to put the final touches on my final piece.  However, I've finished all of my A1 sheets and photo mounts.  In my journal, I wrote at length about the practical problems I would face when using card. 

After testing the combination of the card and Unibond:

I started working on the real thing.  I wrote a day-by-day summary in my journal as the development progressed.  I started cutting the shapes on Tuesday and by the time I got to Saturday, the nets were more or less complete:

Even though I wrote this in my journal, I will mention it on here because it was a very important part of the design process.  After the first model, it became clear that the small curves could not be stuck with either Unibond or double-sided tape.  Instead, I used super-glue.  Although it was a lot more difficult to rectify mistakes, superglue provided a quicker and neater result as far as the curves were concerned.  By the time I started working on the final model, I used superglue (and the double-sided hinges that I had been using all along) as the new adhesive; subsequently, the time I spent making the model was cut in half. 

I'm happy with the result so far ( though there are one or two elements of the appearance that I'm not happy with).  If I were to attempt to do something like this again, I would definitely use super-glue.  I considered using it at the start of the project but I was too scared of something going wrong since it is such a strong adhesive which leaves a very limited window in which to correct things.

Journal Reference: Sunday  17.06.2012

In my journal, I've written about how I added a little more to the design, following the comment my mother made about it looking slightly plain in places.  In order to decide on where best to put the words, I placed a sheet of acetate over a few sections:

I decided that it would be a good idea to put the words on both of these sections.  I also decided that I was going to add some more bookshelf photos to create another layer of interest.  This is the final result which I am much happier with: