photos of my sculpture in the atrium

I had intended to suspend my sculpture between the mezzanine floors using thread, but when I got there to take my photographs, I realised that I had left my thread at home :(
so rather than take no photos at all I decided to take them with the atrium in the background:

poster

This is the mock up of the design I've chosen to print for my poster:

not sure which to use on my poster now!

maybe the last photograph?

final sculpture

These are some photographs I have taken of my final sculpture, one of which I hope to use on my poster design:

The above photo's I have tried to keep as natural looking as possible because I like the colours the light hitting the curves & cuts in the paper gave as well as the shadows which to me, give the shape a look of coral.

These photo's I tried on a black background which made them stand out more than the white & it shows the shapes much better I think. 

The only thing that I would do to improve my sculpture would be to try & disguise the joining of the edges where I used a stapler, so that they looked seamless. 

playing with shadow on cut outs

Using a scalpel I cut out the brick shapes from the page, then photographed the page lifted up slightly to create a shadow:

paper sculpting continued....

From a piece of A3 size paper cup vertically I cut out bee hive related shapes from the sections then played around with bending and curling them around until I decided on a position & glued it in place.

With the cut out sections I had a go at joining them together by slotting them into one another like this:

                      These kind of reminded me of the cactus that look like it joins together:
                                    
                                       
I also reverted back to the first paper folding workshop technique that I learnt which was using a scalpel to slice evenly along the page, but I tried it at an angle to see what would happen:

I thought these shared a slight similarity with sea shells:

 

I don't think I'd have the patience!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUMeay5hEg

(By the way this is my first ever blog, so apologies if it sucks!) From an A2 piece of paper we had to create something 3D. I found this a bit tricky & ended up with some sort of flower shape. The most difficult part to this was holding the form in shape. In the end I used glue, but had to sit there & hold it until it was dry & stuck together.

With another piece of paper I had ago at creating another shape. This one turned out less complicated looking & to me seemed like the shape of a vase, so I photographed it with the 'flower' in the neck.

The 'vase' shaped paper also looked good when the ends were squashed together, but I didn't find a way to hold this shape together, so I just tried to photograph it with my hand pushing down on it to give some sort of idea of how the 'bars' arched outwards.