Paper City

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I’m not the most talented artiest when it comes to 3D art, but when we were assigned this project I was ready to be creative. For some odd reason I knew how to fold paper easily into the shape of a box or a house. I’m not sure exactly what class it was in high school that taught me how to fold paper into boxes but I want to say that it was my Trigonometry class. Even though I knew how to make houses and boxes out of paper I wanted to challenge myself a little while doing these two pieces. Part of the assignment was to have something moving on both of our pieces.

For the first piece I made a circus tent. I made a circus tent because that would be something I have never done before and I would have to measure out every detail in order to get it perfect. For the roof of the tent I wanted it to not be attacked because I wanted it to be able to move around and be able to come off and on. The main moving part of this piece however was the flag in the top of the tent. The flag can spin as well as move up and down like flags do in real life.

For the second piece, I made a hanging top-heavy house. For this piece I wanted to have the top bigger than the bottom, I also wanted to experience with cuts and designs in the roof since these were both things I have never worked with before. My moving part of this piece is the house being able to spin while hanging on the wire. Overall I enjoyed this project because it was something I already knew how to do so I got to challenge and push myself to not take the easy way out.


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