Final Project:

Description: 

 This piece is titled The Lantern, because of it's shape. To make this piece have a sense of order and chaos I choose to make a seemingly normal lamp shape contain a chaotic red and green object on the inside.

 The Lantern's skeletal structure was created using wooden skewers and hot glue for it's frame, and red yarn wraps around the frame. The red string is not wrapped in nice clean vertical or horizontal lines, but is instead wrapped and pulled in many directions to make the inside appear that it lacks uniformity. The outside was wrapped with white plastic to hide some of what was on the inside, but was also transparent enough that a few strings were visible, so it caught people's attention. The plastic was wrapped tightly around the frame work and it has holes, as well as tears, to show that it's trying to hold the chaos inside. The inside has the rectangular bead tassels go all the way through it. A green tassel also goes through it, but not all the way it stays inside the chaos of red yarn. The wooden bead tassels are part of the order represented on the outside with straight silver lines and dots. The odd large green and yellow shape that is hanging in the middle of The Lantern is covered with a gold, scale like pattern. It was made with no particular shape in mind and is contrasting against the red yarn. This also adds to the chaotic feel on the inside, like there's no particular reason for it to be there, but it fits in anyway.

 This sculpture also works with light. Without the light, the white plastic would not be transparent enough to show random strings and the shadows from the strings that catch the audiences attention. It also creates strange and fascinating shadows on the wall as the piece moves around.

Discussion: 

 The piece was thought of as fun and interesting. People had to go up close to it to peer on the inside before backing away to see it's shadow. They suggested other material besides plastic to cover the piece if I was to do it again and to add more glitter to the wooden beads. It was also noted that the details in the beads and the green shape on the inside really helped the piece.

Process:

Here several wooden beads were created to make a tassel at the bottom of the sculpture. There was some difficulty threading it so I made a thin piece of wood to help push the yarn through.

This piece of wood was sanded down to an odd shape and is being spray painted green and yellow to contrast the red string, to help make this piece feel a bit chaotic.

This is the skeletal structure of the piece were the wooden skewers are now symmetrical and glued together with hot glue plus wrapped with red yarn.

Description: 

 These pictures show the prototype. This piece is about the same scale the final product will be, and almost all the materials will be the same. The colors were also a test to see what might catch the audiences attention, as well as to see what might represent order and chaos the best. The idea is that the outside will be clean and orderly without to much color to represent order that is attempting to stay together. The inside though, will be chaotic with more color, showing contained chaos.

Discussion:

 The insight given was that the prototype looked like a Chinese lantern that had a mysterious story to it, such as it being burned/destroyed by a fire. When the subject of color was brought up, they all asked that the colors stay the same for the final piece. They also suggested that the red string, that was attaching it to the ceiling and hanging on the bottom with straws, stay instead of using thread or fishing wire. They believed that it had good balance with it coming out both sides.

Description: 

 These sketches were made to envision what a piece about chaos and order would look like. Most of these piece's, if not all of them, could be hung.

Description:

 This rapid prototype was created within two hours with a balloon, red yarn, straws, fabric, and a Styrofoam ball. When making this piece I wanted it to be cohesive by having a primary color scheme. The straws, fabric, yarn, and balloon are either red, yellow, blue, or white. The two circular shapes are made to balance each other out and create interesting shadows. This piece was enhanced by the lightening which castes a unique shadows on the wall.

Discussion: 

 From this prototype, people gave good insight about how a piece could hang and the angles/ shapes that come from hanging it on a wall versus hang it from the ceiling.