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Step two:
- Started off by studying and researching about the different types of polyhedrons and their nets
- Wrote about different interactions including community interactions in specific corresponding spaces like in a home, on a patio, in middle of NYC, in a museum
- I had to build three 3D models of the three different types of polyhedrons out of Bristol paper
- Once we got assigned the project of making a chair, I researched different types of chair and what each one tries to communicate when you sit on it.
- I sketched out 6-10 poly-inspired chairs, but instead of them being poly-inspired my sketched chairs were made out of different polyhedrons.
- Before making the final out of wood, I had to make my chair model out of cardboard with the correct measurements. At first, I had to size the chair according to real life and then sized it down.
- Since we had to make the chair out of wood, we had to do a mini wood assignment that introduced us to the different wood joineries. We had to include at least four of joints.
- I documented my process by taking photos of my process work, which included my sketches, mini wood assignment, cutting the wood, putting the different parts of each polyhedron together, staining the wood, and the final product.
- We also, had a photo assignment at the end where we needed to put our chair in an environment where you think it would fit in the best and crop yourself sitting on it. I chose to put my chair outside the house in the backyard near a fire pit.
Step three:
- Why did I stick to making my chairs out of polyhedrons? Why didn’t I change the polyhedrons into abstract objects?
- I observed that I created my chair with the two most common shapes, a pyramid and a cube. Even though I placed them in an abstract way, you could still tell which shapes they were made of.
- For the pyramid, I had to cut the top of each triangle a certain angle so they could connect, but I wished I experimented more with angles within my chair.
- I missed documenting my working on the actual chair in the woodshop. For example, showing how I screwed the pyramid to the bottom and angled square, the process of screwing in a nail, and figuring out the measurements after sizing it down.
- I wanted my chair to feel discomfort and comfort and describe the feeling out being on “the edge of your seats.” In life, you need to be ready to move and with the chair that I created I don’t think a person can sit on it for more than 5 minutes and I think that is good because you should never be so comfortable in a place that you want to stay there forever. You need to move on.
- I think missed showing that interpretation in my documentation photo assignment because it was placed in a cozy environment so some might interpret it in the complete opposite way.
- One thing I would have done differently is picked out a place/environment for the chair to be in, so it can explain the idea I was trying to express. For example, maybe an office or general work place.
- I would try to make it look a little bit more abstract by changing the edges of the shapes so it would be angular or rounded.
- What if the assignment didn’t require me to use wood then what material would I have used to make a chair or this chair?
- In Baldwin’s essay, he talks about his vision of the world and one of his visions that I thought related with this was the idea that society has created rigid formulas or rules that everybody needs to follow and nobody has the right to alter or bend them. This relates to this project because when I was looking over my project I realized that I stayed within my teacher’s boundaries. Even though, she said I can do whatever I want, many other classmates and I did what she “suggested” because it felt more safe. Therefore, this shows how we stuck to the “rules” even though there really weren’t any because people(like me) were too afraid their projects were going to be wrong or too different from the other classmates.
