Evaluation

Throughout creating these sculptures I encountered many problems. Creating the printing plan on the computer was hard and time consuming. When first folding the card I noticed the folds were untidy and crinkly, to solve this problem I drew out where I needed to fold and scored the lines with a Stanley knife, this made the folding easier and neater. When assembling the games the card would get dirty from my hands therefore I decided to wear latex gloves to keep the card clean. I wasn’t able to get enough plinths to display all of my sculptures, so I have decided to only display one, but photograph them all how I would have wanted them to be displayed.

Overall I feel the work turned out well, if I had more time to focus on this project I could experiment with different ways of applying the features:

•           Print

•           Embossing

•           Transfers

Also I could consider creating the sculptures with different materials e.g. metal.

Final Piece - Unfolded

Keeping The Child Style

To contrast with the maturity of the form of the sculptures, and the gallery setting they will be displayed in, I feel the features of the game should stay in the childish style it originally was. To help with this idea I will create the origami games with my 6 year old cousin, before turning them into sculptures.

Group Crit

After having a group crit, they felt the outcome wasn’t clear enough, and thought to ensure the audience understands what the sculpture is portraying, more of the game features should be added.

From this I decided to change my idea slightly. To make sure the audience understands the concept of the game, I chose to create several sculptures showing all the features of the game. However only showing peoples outcomes, I will do this by playing the game with my people and documenting their outcome, each person will have there own individual sculpture.

 

Unfolding The Game

To create the printed style of the game, I had to see the layout before designing it on the computer. When I unfolded the hand-made game too see, it fell into an intresting form. I then recreated this using one of the chosen designs I created earlier.

I feel the apprpriate way to display this work which will ensure my concept is shown clearly, of the childish style origami game unfolded into a spohicatiated sculpture, would be on white display plinth in a gallery setting. 

Enlarging The Game

Using the two designs, I have changed them from being a hand game to large sculptures.

I feel this idea is good and would be successful; however for the amount of time I have to make the final piece, it is not realistic.

Artist Research - Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is well known for his giant reproductions of banal objects, such as balloon animals.

Like koons, I will be changing a child iconic object into a much larger scale sculpture.

Only Numbers

 

I like the simplicity and maturity of this design,  therefore I will take this one forward.

Only Colours

I feel this design is interesting as it is simple but still keeps the child like style of the game, I will be taking this one forward.

Numbers On The Outside

Original Origami Game

Hand-Made Origami Game

Display - A Work Which Unfolds, Opens Out Or Spreads Out

The first thing that came to mind when I read this project was origami, as its artwork created using a series of folds. Even though the brief stated unfolds and opens out, I thought origami could still be a possibility to look at. I created a mind map of ideas and object that unfold, opens out and spreads out.

After researching different ideas, I wanted to look further into origami. I played around with making different pieces, using Youtube for instructions.

I am interested in taking the idea of an origami game forward, and will experiment different techniques.  

construction of the game