Ava Landry
"Wings"
ART 1009: Introduction to 3D Design
Medium: Poster Board
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Semester: Spring 2017
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Skills Developed:​ Tessellation, Working with Material Constraints
My Experience
This paper sculpture was created as part of my Introduction to 3D Design course. I believe this to be my most successful project from the semester. I love the way it turned out! For this assignment, we were given a piece of paper and told to make it into a sculpture. We were not allowed to use any kind of glue or adhesive. We later transferred our original paper ideas to a larger poster board.
Tessellation
To create my piece, I performed a tessellation(a repeated pattern)Â that I found online on the paper. To do this, I folded it back and forth in a certain pattern that created the raised areas on the piece. I then joined the corners of the poster board in the center and cut a small slit so that it would stay in place. Finally, I cut the ends of the poster board so that it would not look like a straight edge. This folding allowed for a textured surface on the sculpture.
Working with Material Constraints
For this piece, we were challenged to only use 1 piece of poster board with no adhesives. This demonstrated how to use creativity when materials are limited. Though I was not able to utilize much, I was still able to create a visually appealing piece.