Dodecahedron Project

Dodecahedron

When given this assignment I was having a hard time thinking of how to represent my culture in such a confined space as a dodecahedron. I have lived in 3 different cultures in my life (so far), two of which have really shaped me as a person so I decided to show how they have influenced who I am today. The first thing I did was the planning, writing everything down really helped me know what materials I had to buy, what dimensions I would be working with and more or less how I was going to bring it all to life. I decided to cut out a figure made of cardboard to represent me as a blank slate that would be surrounded by thread with the colors of the flags of the places I lived (United States and Brazil) the most difficult part was figuring out how I was going to suspend the figure. At first I thought I was going to have many stings of thread holding up the cardboard figure, similar to a spiderweb, but after speaking to my teacher we had decided that it would be too crowded and that it would take the attention away from the figure so then I tried using the least amount of thread to hold the figure but then it looked like a noose which lead me to suspend him in 3 different directions which gave the figure an interesting pose which I ended up enjoying more.