Multiples and Modules Project

            I did a bit of brain storming for my multiples and modules project for the actual object, and I came back to one of my favorite things: CARDS!!!! First a little background: I adore cards. I love playing with them, I have a deck always with me, and I even wrote about them in my college essay. Not only do I collect cards from the places I visit, they have a certain attraction to them. Only being 52 pieces of paper and providing hours of varied entertainment, cards themselves deserve mad props for encouraging such creativity. 

                  I had a hard time figuring out what over shape I wanted it to be. I drew in my sketchbook and was playing with various forms of squares, and lying on top of one another but I ended up decided to do a cube. I didn't completely fill it in, but I did leave it more as suggesting line. To make up the line of my cube, I cut each individual card into thirds. I folded each one up into a triangle shape, but so that you could still see behind the card. I then-using a ton of hot gule- glued each individual triangle to each other,staggering them as you go of course, to form the individual lines. I had two different colors for my deck of cards, both blue and red, and kinda layered/mixed them together. For construction, I created a simple square first. It was actually kinda hard to get it to balance on itself without falling over, beacause there were never two flat"triangles" next to each other to rest on for balace. I then created a second cube, and before completely gluing it together put it across the already completed square and finished the piece by glueing the two together.

Reflection:

 Because it took me a while to get my idea completely concrete I ended up taking the piece home to finish. The triangles took me much longer than I expected, and ended up being the most tedious process. I also had a little difficult of a time keeping the piece clean looking without having the hot glue bend the shape of the card because of the heat, or the triangle not sticking together because the glue wasn't hot enough. So I defintley played around a lot with the temperature. Halfway through my project I had to stop and take apart part of the first square, as I had made it on much too big of a scale. I think the biggest thing I learned was it's ok to experiment and fall in love with an idea, but don't be overly ambitious. I wanted to make a bigger piece because I thought it would look cooler, but time constraints made me size down and the piece ended up looking a lot nicer with the smaller size. I guess sometimes I want to complicate and make things harder than they actually have to be. All in all it was a fun-but slightly painful because of burning myself-experience, and I liked the way the piece turned out!