We started by creating installations as a group from the objects associated with the title which we had brought in, this was our one:
we then drew from them in various ways, such as continuous line; using the wrong hand; with a partner; using two pens at a time, etc. We then had to make our own installations at home and bring in various objects to continue to work from. I was struggling to understand how the drawing and installations we were making linked to fashion & textiles, untill we began to make basic paper sculptures inspired by our drawings which started to look like folds in fabric and basic structures featured within clothing. We then developed these scultpures further by reproducing them in materials and different weight papers which was interesting because it showed how weights affect the structures and there forms.
I brought in some photos of a friend smoking as some of my chosen objects to work from. Under the title expansion & compression i was struggling to think of what to focus on, so i ended up focusing on my heavy breathing and constant need for nicotine.. lungs expand and compress and the i really like the way the smoke physically shows the air's movement. I was really pleased with the shapes the smoke created :)
Using these photos as inspiration i began to look at the form of lungs and experimented with different paper materials to make different types of basic lungs. The pieces i felt were most successful i re-created on a larger scale and in different colours and materials.
At the end of the two weeks i came to the conclusion (with the help of adrian) that if i had continued this project further i would reproduce the last piece but in black and on a larger scale with someone blowing smoke from the back so it billowed out around the outline of the lungs. A bit like this:
