The wire is a fun, flexible and free material. And I like it. 
Putting all my wire drawings together into a mobile was challenging but eventually came out successfully.
What really challenged especially me was to draw 3Dly, which means to think 3Dly. This is my first big project with 3D things, and I have been doing mostly only with 2D art since I started my art path. To draw and think 3D was really out of my comfort zone or even my area of knowledge. My first 3D drawing is the one with the thick wire, as you see in the photo on the right, it’s basically a 2D face forced attached with a 3D neck. However, as I do my second one and the third one– the glasses women and the cat women, you can see I slowly become more and more perspective and the wire lines have also become more directional towards 3D spaces. To draw 3D, and to get out of the flat space was exciting.
The mobile structure for all the wire drawings is first sketched on my notebook to plan a balanced and aesthetical nice result.
I planned to construct a structure that connects all the wire-drawn faces to make out a face. I had 2 plans and decided to go for a more unexpectable type of face where one drawing balances multiple drawings. I thought through how to distribute and position the drawings depending on their weights. I learned from someone that actually physics is surprisedly involved. The directional force–torque is changing because of the distance between the edge and the rotational center. Using my physics knowledge, I balanced a seemly unbalance structure. Planning is easy, to actually construct them together was challenging, it took me at least 5 trails until it worked, because every time I lift it up, all the drawings fall to one side and the string that connects them tangles together. Then I have to spend a large amount of time to untangle or cut the strings.
In conclusion, it was a challenging, meaningful and out-of-box experience. I learned how difficult it is to think 3Dly, it’s a thinking process that we are usually not familiar with. It makes me really admire all the architecture designers who design and construct houses and buildings with their imaginative 3D logic. It makes me consider how space and communication work with each other– the wire drawings connects with each other, communicate with each other because of the structure, and contained by the space to be balanced. I think space and three-dimensional studies are where I want to explore more next.
