Development

First I chose to use tissue paper because it is a very delicate material and would rip or break very easily. I used a craft knife to cut out random shapes into the tissue paper. It is an awkward process with how fine I had to do the lines/cuts and due to how frail and breakable the material is.

I wanted to develop the 2D piece into a 3D piece so I chose to use cotton which is also another delicate material so it seemed like a good idea to put both of these materials together. I threaded the cotton throughout the 2D piece and pulled it together to develop it into a light, elegant and intricate piece that represented what I was aiming for it to represent.

Experimenting

These are two experiments I did that didn't turn out how I would have liked and doesn't necessarily fit the fragile/delicate direction I was going for.

Out of the two experiments this can been seen as the more delicate one because it can go out of shape with a simple touch but I don't think this reflects Matthew Darbyshire's work like I was aiming for. Materials I used for this were polyester stuffing and cotton.

This is my least favorite of all of my test pieces because I don't think these materials work well enough together because it's too rugged. The materials I used were a form board and cotton.

Lorenzo Duran Influences

An artist that does delicate and very finely cut art work is Lorenzo Duran which I think is amazing so I tried it as one of my samples because delicacy is what I'm aiming to portray. These are my samples along with Lorenzo Duran's work that I got influenced from.

Insecurity

From looking at Matthew Darbyshire's work and from meeting him, he said that the person behind the Blade's House and who "lives" there is self-conscious so I wanted to take that to respond to his work... From this I got the word insecurity which I wanted to portray through my final outcome. To do this I need to use fragile/weak material

Through this sample I wanted to create something that would be strong and neat on one side and messy and untidy on the other to portray someone that comes across like they're okay but on the inside has a lot of problems and insecurities that doesn't always come across on the outside.

For this I wanted to make something that was delicate so I used a craft knife to cut out the triangles. I used black sugar paper and red sugar paper for these samples but if I was to choose to do something like this for my final piece I would use a more fragile material and cut the lines so that they're thinner.

Adornment

These is something I made to respond to the word "Adornment" 

I used black sugar paper and straws for the first one which I did some weaving as adornment is seen to be something that's deemed to look good and attractive.

I also did this to respond to Adornmet because a flower is seen to be pretty. I made this with blue sugar paper. But because I got the machete and technique from the Internet which isn't original so doesn't fit well to the brief of being original although it connects to the brief. http://m.origami-instructions.com/site/origami-instructions_1/www-origami-instructions-com-origami-modular?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.origami-instructions.com%2Forigami-modular-5-petal-flower.html#2842

'Lifecycled'

For our new brief 'Lifecycled' we are to create either a 2D, 3D, craft, digital, fashion, ornament, sculpture or textile outcome. It has to be Lifecycled and will respond to Matthew Darbyshire's exploration of reappropiation, either through materials or ideas. 

We then had workshops with Andrea Zapp who is a media artist and is mostly known as a fashion designer. This is some of her work and an outcome from a quick activity we did with her.

After our workshop with Andrea Zapp we then went onto a workshop with Claire Norcross who is an award-winning designer specialising in lighting. She shown us some of her work and explained more of how the artist/ designer communicates with the manufacturer and the importance of detail needed. We then constructed one of her flat pack story lights. This is some of her work and the light we constructed.

We then went to Ferrious and explored the store and was told the history of Ferrious along with there most popular sales. This is some of the furniture that was at Ferrious.

This is some of Matthew Darbyshire's work that we have to respond to for the brief.