08/10/14 - Making my Headpiece

To make my accessory, I used the molten and gluey plastic cup samples I'd made along with the balloons I'd dribbled PVA over. I initially started off making the base circle to my model's head diameter and later glued sections of the plastic cup pieces to the frame. More strips were added later to make the accessory look more crown-like. As the film I'll be using the headpiece in is going to have a fun concept looking into the positives of a twin relationship, I wanted the accessory to not only fit with the model (a 3 year old), but also fit in with the overall atmosphere of the film. 

For the areas of the headpiece that have bits hanging off of it, this was entirely accidental. When stapling the balloons together and glueing them to the plastic strips, I found that the shrunken PVA wasn't holding up well and was peeling off of the balloons more than normal. In a bid to stop myself from getting too worked up and distraught about it, I moved to a mirror and put the headpiece on myself, fashioning the precarious pieces and rearranging them in such a way that they would tumble over the eyes and look quite soft.

The resulting accessory has a number of different ideas being projected onto it as it was born from strange concept. The fragile PVA strings are a direct link to my interest in dainty structures. On the other hand, the PVA strings are derived from an initial idea which was to turn balloons into embryo-like structures. These sacs link to the molten plastic cups as they both remind me of amniotic sacs and amniotic fluid which protect babies whilst they're in the womb and the initial focus on babies and their origins came from looking into twins and their psychological attachment to each other.

Overall, I'm quite happy with my accessory as it has the dainty features I was looking to create and keep. Were I to improve my accessory, I would have gone on to make another version- one on a much larger scale which would have kept within the fundamental concept whilst being a lot more bold. I would also have tried to find a way to ensure the 'amniotic sacs' stayed in tact because whilst I really like the way the PVA peeled off of the balloons, I also wish there was a way for me to incorporate the original samples too, not just ones discovered whilst making.