This project has come the long way. Let me start from the beginning of the miserable.
The first step is to draw lines. Sounds easy right? What if I have to fill out the entire 18×24 paper? Those lines are my responses to the sound around me. Each line represents one breath.
By this point, I still did not know what I get myself into.
When I knew that I have to build a cardboard typography model based on my line drawing, I was shocked for a couple of days. I was in disbelief that I can actually cut 100 lines out of cardboard.
Our instructor, Jeff, told us that we can pick up free cardboard from streets. I am glad that I did not need to spend money on a large amount of cardboard.
Here are my process photos.
There are in total 250+ lines.
I divided the drawing into two parts because I want to make a river in between.
Cut bit by bit. Very tough.
Next line
Three layers
6 layers
At first, I thought I would need to do a 100 layers as a requirement. 6 layers took me 3 hours to cut. I thought I would never achieve 100 layers in a week and a half. After 14 layers, I was told that I only need 100 cuts. Because cut from both sides, I can only do 50 layers. However, I was aiming for 100 layers in my initial planning. I thought it would be good to just see what would turn out.
Gluing is the best part! Even though I did it right before critique.
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My bag is dying on the cardboard mountain
In addition to the cardboard, I have cast the space of my hands to be displayed in my mountains.
Here is the final display of 50 layers (100 + cuts) cardboard mountains + alien baby from my hand space.
The final result is not as magnificent as I thought it would be. Probably there are only 50 layers. I think if I reach 100 layers, it would look much more impressive. Towards the end of the cutting process, I was desperate, so each line was more separated than I planned partially because I was told to do 100 cuts, not 100 layers. My upper layers were not as dense as the bottom layers. If I would have more time, I would make more layers and make the space between each line even. (But I will not want to try it again in next 5 years)
In addition to the 3D display, I also did those real-life drawings.
The experience is so cool and fun that I forgot to take a picture of my teammates’ note at the end. However, I still remembered some of it. In the end of the “cooling” process, the casting got from warm to hot. The heat seems to start from center of my palm. I can feel that the heat is coming from the center. Peeling it off was actually stick. I had to be very careful so that it does not break.
I think the first drawing turns out really nice. I was not expecting the line texture on the object.
