Space/Materiality -Final

Our final project for this class was really fun. As a class we were creating an exquisite corpse. Max put us into group and had us pick the body part we would be making. I got the left abdomen. Max told us we  could make our body part look any way we wanted. He also said we could use any materials, as long as our piece was 24″ x 16″.

Since I got a part of the body that was pretty big, I decided to make butterfly wings.

These are the sketches I did to plan my piece out.

I thought about having the wings move, i thought about what i was going to make it out of, how i was going to connect it to the pieces around me.

After talking to Max about my ideas, he suggested making it out of vacuum formed plastic (since he taught us how to use the machine for one of our previous projects).

To vacuum form you need to make a mold that will hold its form as the plastic is being heat pressed against it with force.

He said that wood would be the best option for making the mold. I didn’t want to work with wood for this project because I had just cut through my finger nail during the last project. I was still scared to go back to using the machines. I decide to use cardboard. Max said I need to layer it enough to make sure it wouldn’t lose its shape during the process. these are the cardboard cut out I made. I layered about 7 to 9 piece of cardboard and glued them together with hot glue. I kept the cut outs that fit inside these pieces because I was going to vacuum form them as well.

I don’t have pictures from the vacuum forming process sadly. After I vacuum formed all the pieces I had to cut out them out and fit them together. Then I super glued them together and painted the insides.

This is what the inside of the butterfly wings looked like.

I had to drill holes on the top and bottom of both pieces to be able to add hardware to connect them to all the pieces.

These are the four pieces that created the butterfly wing.

The butterfly wing put together.

This is what the class exquisite corpse looked like. Everyone went in very different directions but we all had a lot of fun.

 

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *