You could almost call this my last project. When I first got the assignment, the idea was to make some type of box, made out of foam core, that will have secret doors which hold an object and drawings. I knew I wanted this project to be pretty personal for me so I used myself as my inspiration.
My main box was my own silhouette. I snapped a picture of myself from the side and did some editing in photoshop to come out with a black silhouette. Then I printed that off fairly large and traced it onto the black foam core. The tricky part was to make the sides of the box. I cut out strips of the foam core and glued them one at a time along the outline of my silhouette. I used the safety pins to hold a couple of the strips together. Once they all dried and were pretty sturdy, I sawed down the strips to make a slant so the box was not completely flat on top. I had to use my x-acto knife and it was a very time consuming and frustrating process.
For my object, I decided to sculp a brain out of sculpy (even though I am not the best at sculpting), and I would also sculpt wings to glue onto the side of the brain. This was to signify that my brain is free to create. To hide my brain, I cut a hole into my foam core head and made a little hole and then had the top of my head slide up to reveal the brain, and slide back down to hide it.
For my drawings, I wanted to create my thoughts somehow. I drew a skeleton backbone, foot, and hand. I drew them almost like diagrams but instead of diagramming the bones, I diagrammed important things in my life. I diagrammed important people in my life for my backbone. I diagrammed important places I have been, am at now, and am going to in the future for my foot. And for my hand, I diagrammed interesting things about myself. For an extra little twist, I wrote all of the words in Polish. I first did this because my thoughts are secret to me and I would bet not many people know Polish so it was almost like my own language. I also did it in Polish because I am Polish. I was very happy with how these turned out. I put a little thing drawer on the side to slide the 4x4 drawings into.
Then to cover the bottom I attempted to fill the empty space on the back with pieces of foam core but trying to get them the right size was very challenging and I didn't like the gaps. So what I did was line the entire back with black tape and then cut around the edges and it turned out really nice.
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| inspiration |
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| this was the picture used for my silhouette |
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mini paper version
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| had to use bag clips to hold the pieces together while the glue dried. |
drawings
finished
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| my mind is free to create |
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| people |
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| places |
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