Transformation

One form-17 different materials! sounds easier than it actually is. Still everybody came up with different ideas. From natural material to completely industrial. Next step: choose your favourite and transform it.
So the rest of the day was about cutting, burning, sewing and many other options. That's how you get many other things out of just one.

Plastinates

Process: Plastinates from Etsy on Vimeo.

With the sheet of paper under the table,  upside down and without seeing , we were drawing some objects which were placed on the table. After we chose the two most interesting, beautiful oder precis drawings. Out of the 16 trials of different materials we took the most to work with and with that and one of those drawings we created a jewellery piece in only 3 hours.  

I couldnt believe that Peters words :“I hope in the end you start to like the material“ will become true, but it was really incredible to see how every material can be transformed. When you put your effort in it and go on working you can find ways you would never have thought that they exist.

Monday, 31 January 2012

Today’s lesson was about materials experimentations and working and drawing restrictions. This made me think about some important questions you’d better ask yourself while you are working with a new material or making a new piece:

1.    Are you working with or against the material?

2.    If you never break rules, will you ever discover something new?

3.    Is it possible to work with no rules at all?

4.    Are you making a fast, simple and repeatable piece or a more complicated, unique one?

5.    Are you using a certain material for conceptual or esthetical reasons?

6.    Do you want to hide or to show the material?

7.    What happens if you try to overcome your physical limits while you are working?

8.    Which are the criteria to judge a piece?

Sometimes questions are more useful than answers.

Today was the first day of our one-year project with Peter, who as we were told will confuse us, a lot.

We started by talking about basic geometry and different shapes, but most importantly about lines. One would think that it would be quite simple to describe sonething as common as a line, but we all found out pretty soon that it is actually quite difficult.

One of our first tasks was to go out and take pictures of various lines, in order to built objects which would project shadows in form of our found lines.

I thought it was very interesting to have to think the other way around. Insted of just finding out what the shadow of an object is, building one that will have the shadow you want it to have... (indeed, very confusing)

Wednesday: La Specola

Shakudo, mokume-gane, layers, unusual wedding rings, lipstick, women's independence, La Specola, museum rules, old fashion, drawings, drawings, drawings... euplectella aspergillum, cochlicopa lubrica, insects, tiny perfection, sternocera aequisignata, iridescent, dimorphism, extatoso matiratum, phasmatodea, omotteri memracidi (insects or thorns?!), farfallafoglia, strange appendixes, encope emarginata, bear juggler, fennec fox (...and his big termoragultory ears), baleen, upupa (funny crest!), aye-aye, uccello tessitore, colors explosion, uccello parasole, wax, Clemente Susini, artery of head and neck (seems to coral!!) exposed organs, pearls string, foetus, Gaetano Zumbo, draw the death, anatomy, make a piece of jewellery following the rules....don't think too much...do it!

World Sketching Tour from World Sketching Tour on Vimeo.