Spec:
Working only with cardboard and paper as materials – Express each of the four concepts below though a cardboard physical form/model. You may use color, glue, and tape to assemble your final artifact. Your object must be three-dimensional and not a drawing.
Ideation:
I wanted express the concept cold in a way that made sense to me and that I have seen used in the real world by others: using cardboard to mitigate the cold.
The following is a picture of a vagabond using cardboard, perhaps next to some building or other enclosed space, to mitigate the cold.
As you can see in the next image, cardboard might not be the best material to keep someone from being cold as it can easily be blown over or fall down. What if it rained?
For boing, I first thought of objects that go "boing", bounce or have that same springiness about them. Thus, I crafted a cardboard spring as depicted in the following images. In the second picture, I have compressed the spring, and I am able to make it boing on release.
I was unable to capture the spring boing after compressing it, but I am sure you can imagine what that looks like.
I was running out of clever ideas for splat. I decided to color, cut, and glue a "splat" of white paint on the ground. Most of the round edges came out sharper than I had wanted after making my cuts around the cardboard.
And last but certainty not least, what is prickly if not a cardboard Christmas tree?
Closing thoughts:
Cardboard is a lot harder to work with than I thought. All the cutting and preparation takes a lot of time. It was insightful to see my peer's work in class and the visions they had for cardboard and these concepts.
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