Rachael's Blog: Creating the final piece

Now that I had decided on my final piece idea it was time to make it! I started out by creating 100 small squares like this...

and scoring the sides so fold them over to create more of a diamond shape. Eventually I made 100

Lovely little tower! Then I began experimenting with how to put them all together securely, I decided that I was going to do 10 rows of 10 squares at first, and then once they were all secured I would join them all together, and then hopefully form my tower like design.

first of all I tried to secure me squares with masking tape, which worked but was very obvious that it was there, and I wanted my sculpture to not show how obviously it was secured together.

As you can see its a little obvious.

I didnt really want to use glue, as it isn't guaranteed to work, and I didn't think it would and didn't really want to make a mess for no reason. I decided that I would try sewing pieces together...

This idea seemed to work so I decided to do this throughout the construction of all the pieces and then for added security similar to what the maskin tape has given me, i decided to use sellotape as well.

so that it would be extra supported.

Once all of my ten rows of ten squares were finished I began to connect them all together so that the formed one big "wall like" construction. My main idea was to create the cylinder shape that I made a practice model of. HOWEVER!

this structure wouldn't work! my square structure wasn't strong enough to support this idea! So I decided that I quite liked the idea of design number 3 where the shape would be flat and inspired by the pattern of a flower or some natural form opening, so I began to construct that... and was very pleased with the outcome!

here is is task 1 final piece!