As mentioned below the sixth was my starting date for my foundation art course. The pictures above are what the tutors had us doing, to loosen us up and give us a taste of what it will be like.
Both of the tasks had us challenging our pre-convieced notions of what sellotape & cardboard are like as materials to work with. Listening to the sound it made as well as its other properties enabling us in the task of creating something out of the materials.
The sellotape challenge was where we had to use one roll of tape to fill a square. I took the square thing literally and decided to fill it, i originally wanted to make it once continuos ordered line. It didn’t end up like that, more like random lines building up layers with some pulled up and others stuck to the floor. So not very ambitious & rubbish in comparison to everyone else’s. The other sellotape image was my other attempt at the challenge. I was gonna make a 3d version of the space occupied by my feet…ended up looking more like an apple so added a stalk for humour.
A similar task was applied to the cardboard but as small group, we had to create a space and link it with another groups. The end results was to be a maze of shelters & rooms. Playing with cardboard reverted most of us to want to make tunnels to crawl through like children, but it was fun and got us all talking. The maze filled the whole room and had some impressive rooms, one group made a toilet….
Overall a scary and intimidating start to foundation, i need to start breaking out of my box more!!
