29/09/14 - Creating Accessory Samples

Plastic cup sample - Caroline Wong 29/09/14

Bobby pin sample - Caroline Wong 29/09/14

For the three objects we were asked to bring in and work with, I brought in plastic cups, bobby pins and a selection of new and fully used tealights. Whilst making samples, I found that the pieces I liked most were those that incorporated the use of my plastic cups and hot glue. Together, they created something textured and whimsical that I think amniotic fluid would look like. The samples I made look like some sort of solidified alien fluid (technical term) and as I've been looking into twins and birth as a tangent, these plastic pieces tied in nicely. 

The pieces we made had to be scanned in and blown up and this is where I believe I had the most trouble. I really liked the 3D structure I'd made with the bobby pins but it proved to be awful to photocopy. Because of this, I had to abandon the sample for the rest of the workshop and instead I only focused on my weird and strange embryo-esque pieces.

Experimenting with scans - Caroline Wong 29/09/14

This workshop was enjoyable as I like creating 3D pieces and making things (all of my A-level final pieces were sculptural). I especially like working with tools though I'm not entirely sure why and it felt good to wield the glue gun and get down to making. The workshop also forced me to think more about incorporating accessories into shoots. 

As I'm a promotion student, I am producing a photoshoot and a film and I've begun thinking about creating an accessory for both shoots. The accessory I want to create for the photoshoot will tie in with my ideas of psychological attachment and the characters 'thing one' and 'thing two' as mentioned before. The work I produce in the workshops will be inspired by the amniotic fluid and other 'alien' substances that come into play during childbirth. 

What I plan on doing next is experimenting with other materials to create grotesque structures that I can use in conjunction with the molten plastic pieces to create my headpiece. As I already know that my model for the shoot is going to be my cousin (who's only 3 years old), I want to keep the design fun to not only show the happiness attachment can bring as a flip to the photoshoot (which is going to highlight the pain of an attachment) and I intend on bringing in 'structure' through the use of references to amniotic fluid etc. This ties in with the delicacy and fragility of 'structures' that I was originally so interested in.