A PEEK AT THE FUTURE?

This week I went to one of the second year critiques. Their assignment (or what they could interpret from Jonathon's long project statement!) was to take a piece of paper and make rules for how it should be folded...this crease should always go here, the folds should be this size...etc. They took their paper designs and blew them up on the computer and turned them into full scale pieces. Some versions ended up in parks, others in urban spaces.

Jasmine shared with us her concept of weaving paper strips together to make something instead of folding it. She focused on weaving and tension folding. She used aluminum mesh since it was already woven and used fishing wire to sew it into the form that she wanted. She used points from her hand to give the model directional tension, something she learned from an earlier assignment about the human body. She shared with us that 3D modeling was definitely harder than expected!

Justin and his group told us about their concept of biomimicry and how they wanted to capture the look of wind and dune formations. To recreate their paper model they used the laser cutter on acrylic and then baked the model in the oven and had to check on it and shape it periodically. They wanted their piece to be placed in an urban setting and were inspired by the light effects it would produce/that would be produced through it in that type of setting.





What did the students have to say about their projects and challenges? They said that even though some of the assignments will be hard to understand, you have to take your interpretation and "keep moving forward!" They also quoted Tommy saying to "always have a beginner's mind." Later that day one of the second years was walking around looking at our studio. He told a few of us that he stopped in at a few of our previous critiques and that the work we've done was much different/even a little better than theirs last year. I'm not sure how true that really is but it's exciting to think about moving forward and creating things like these. Things aren't going to get any easier but they're definitely going to get more interesting!