At the beginning of this project I found it very hard to get to grips with as each time a came up with a new design idea, it seemed that it wouldn’t work . When I finally came up with a design idea that would work I was already half way through the assigned time for this project. Therefore I had to get my materials together quickly. The original materials I bought from Canal plastics didn’t work well for my piece as the plastic was too thick to cut and I needed something thinner. With the help of my professor Sunhee Kim I decided on materials that would work better for my Piece. I used thin black plastic poles to create the shape of a triangle (which I managed to break down into smaller pieces using a manual saw). To attach these pieces together I used red plastic tubing. Then I cut of smaller triangles out of think clear plastic. To attach this to the larger triangles I came up with a technique of using thin pieces of metal which curved around the poles and then I attached it to the plastic using black paper brads. This part was the most time consuming, as to attach the metal to the plastic I had to create a hole in both pieces using an awl and a hammer. Before I had the idea of the awl and hammer I originally tried using pushpins to create a hole through both of the pieces, but the metal was too thick and strong to do that, which is why the awl and hammer was a great solution for that.
This is my final board demonstrating the development and process which I took in this project
