For this field activity, I used a variety of paper materials to convey the different sensations.
I didn't know what prickly was, so I googled it and a bunch of cactus photos came up. I then asked myself, what is the most spiny pointy thing I can imagine? Suddenly, the image of my dad eating sea urchin when we went on Sunday's to eat sushi popped into my mind. Therefore, I tried to make a sea urchin-like cardboard model by cutting 3 2D spiky stars. I then cut slots on the middle and assembled them so it could stand.
For the cold sensation, I got the inspiration from my trip to the Netherlands this winter. It was freaking cold and I remember looking at all the flora covered by snow. The colors where beautiful - gold and brown with a nimble outline of fresh snow. Therefore, I used golden cardboard and cut leaves out of it. I used an empty pen to make the leaf veins and tissue paper in between the two leaf faces to recreate snow. I then wrinkled the borders and it gave me the chills!
For the splat, I used newspaper. I grew up in Lima, Perú. Unfortunately, there is a lot of trash in some areas of the city center. I have memories of watching the wind blow tens of newspaper sheets through the streets. Therefore, I related splat with disorder and that's why I chose such material. I envisioned a drop of gooey liquid that fell into the ground and created a casual random shape. Thus, I tried to convey that by cutting multiple sheets of newspaper in the same inconsistent shape and then rotated them to form like staircase.
Finally, for the boing, I attempted to resemble an elastic bed by cutting cardboard sticks and joining them with sticky tape, interweaving the stiffness of the cardboard with the flexibility of the tape. I then made two faces and joined them with the zigzagged material I created. The final result was a cube that could be pushed down and when released jumped like a frog - BOING!
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