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3D Design: Spring 2012

Design and construct a structure comprised of 100 identical white paper units.

- Construct a 3D unit using only 8.5"x11" copier paper.  You may fold, cut, crinkle, tear, bend or otherwise manipulate your material.

- Replicate the unit 100 times. 

- Construct a structure comprised of all 100 units, and only these 100 units.  Consider notches, slots, folds and tabs as some of the ways of joining the units.  You may NOT use any adhesives, staples or non-paper material.

What is the relationship between the units and the overall structure?
What design decisions are apparent?
Is there unity?
Tension?
Symmetry?
Asymmetry?
Are the lines horizontal?
Vertical?
Diagonal?
How does the structure support itself?
Is there a relationship between the unit, the overall structure, and the means of joining all 100 units?  In spite of the lightness of your given material, does your structure communicate a sense of mass?

What decisions did you make?
What strategies did you employ?

Man

I have never before photo-stalked someone,

but this man cut such an old fashioned profile, I had to:

Gift

For Amanda's new baby, due next Monday. . .

(there is something knitted inside).

Sword in the Pumpkin

LSCTS

For more :
All the Gentle Ladies
(Tshirts, mugs, etc.)

Progress Update

Last winter, I unwisely took in three semi-feral foster puppies.  The last holdout for adoption was this little girl:

As she was completely uninterested in humans, I called my most amazing and fearless friend, Lynne.  Lynne is a human, but she has a large pack of animals on her nature reserve in Henry County and I thought that maybemaybemaybe, "Little Girl" would de-stress in the company of other dogs while learning to trust the human presence (Lynne).  I am sooooooo smart.  Here's "Lello" now - front and center:

By the by, that is just part of the pack.

Aaaahhhhh. . . .

Rossana Martinez, See the World in Orange and Blue, 2011

Alexander McQueen

Savage Beauty, a posthumous retrospective;
just came in the mail.

It's so, so good.

Not necessarily taken from the book:

Christmas Came Early

Thanks Sarah!

The Little Loom House

Saturday at the Little Loom House was lovely.  I am in a mad rush to complete a final bolt before our last class Tuesday evening.  Here is a brief tour and a look at the fabric I am working on (I am using the 50/50 alpaca/merino for sale in the etsy shop):