WEEK 3: EXECUTION
- deepikagupta20
- Feb 18, 2021
- 5 min read
Updated: Mar 6, 2021
Now after the ideation part is done, it is time for executing those ideas. This week is all about creating a final form which is divided into various stages.
But before starting with my final outcome, I was asked to create small samples of my two ideas that I liked the most to see how will the final form look and which idea should I go with.
I and the teachers both liked the first idea as it looked very interesting to us and the manipulation of sunboard's property seemed very fascinating.
DAY 1: COMPONENTS
Creating components are a part of making the whole. Today we were required to make the components for the outcome. All the students were asked to make units/parts of their outcome for them to be assembled later as neatness in individual unit would reflect neatness in the whole.
I first cut rectangles of different lengths and breadths out of the sunboard. This way it became easier to curve them by burning.
Then, I burned the rectangles but since the size was too large, it was difficult to burn the entire rectangle over a flame at once.
So I decided to cut some branches from one the trees in my home to ignite a fire.
Also I climbed the tree on my own to do this and that's when I got a reality check that it was not going to be easy
Here's a video of how I curved the sunboard by burning it.
After this, all my components were ready. I curved some of them completely while for the others I left their one end open. The number of these units were more than 50 as the outcome needed to be huge.
DAY 2: ASSEMBLY
"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" and today was all about assembling the units made on the previous day to give structure to the idea. We had to put together the units made as one final form either using a glue or tying them or any other technique which we liked to join them.
KEEP IN MIND: Use the sticking mediums (such as elfy) carefully and also try to make the glue or the joining point invisible to the eye of the audience
I first thought of making it in a decreasing manner from the back to the front, where back side being the longest and front the smallest. After that, I felt like it became too organised so I decided stick them together randomly by using elfy.
INTERESTING FACT: When I showed it to my friends and family members, everybody had a different perspective about it. It looked like musical notes to one of my friends while the other thought of it as bones. My mother said and I quote, "This looks like a forest" and as for my brother, he is still figuring out if this makes any sense to him.
DAY 3: FINISHING
"It's always the little details that matter" and this day we had to refine our outcome by looking at it critically in order to improve it. We were required to work on embellishing those small details which we might have ignored unknowingly. Also looking at our outcome in a critical manner so that it would give us an insight into what the audience would think after seeing it and improve it accordingly.
Now that the structure was finally stable, I decided to pour wax on it. I also decided to put a glass below it so that it would work as a base for the wax and the final outcome too.
My motive behind this was that the hot wax would melt the sunboard along with it to show how a person has drowned in his sorrowful life.
Here's a video of how the wax is being poured:
The color of the wax did not turned out what I thought as I wanted a bit darker shade but I was still happy as I was able to see some kind of gradation of orange and red in it.
I also realised that a little bit of wax fell outside of the glass base.
DAY 4: EXHIBITION
This day was about exhibiting our work as it is one of the most crucial aspect while designing anything. Today we were required to make our outcome presentable, hide errors from the viewer's eye, play with its shadow and add the 'WOW' factor as if it has been installed in a museum.
In natural light:
The color of the wax turned out to be a mix of orange, red and even violet.
Play of shadows:
The shadows looked like buildings to me like the ones that are seen during a sunset depicting that even in this sorrow life, there's always a hope and you only need to look for it with a positive mind.
RIVER OF TEARS
This is the title of my final outcome as the wax pour looks like a bloody river and the sunboard cylinders seems like they are crying. Their tears can be traced down their body and mixing with the river.
The whole idea behind this structure was to depict the 'deep sorrow' in a person's life and what goes inside his mind because small sorrows can be talked out but the deep ones are silent and always leave a mark in our lives. It is the kind of melancholy we feel when we are in a beautiful place and as if the sun is going down.
The reason why I chose this emotion is because I feel that in today's world we are so much surrounded by materialistic things (including social media) that we have somehow lost ourselves eventually making us depressed.
"Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep" - Taraji P. Henson
DESIGN PROCESS:
REFLECTION:
This week was much more relaxing than the previous weeks as the whole week was about making one final outcome and not 20 outcomes a day. I think that the fact we were given a whole week to work on the outcome in stages led to better ideas unlike the previous projects in which we were not given any separate time.
As soon as I decided to depict 'deep sorrow' in my outcome, I immediately thought of a downpour on an abstract form to portray the feeling of drowning in sorrow. The process wasn't as easy as it seemed. I realised that the wax did not melt the sunboard along with it the way I thought it would.
I usually panic while making the final outcome but this time, it was quite the opposite as we had the teachers helping us out at every stage and there was no rush.
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