Project 1(c)

 BATTERIES!

 This is probably my favorite idea so far. Good solid objects that can be made into multiple molds quickly.

I also have the option of using different kinds of batteries for diversity and irregularities amongst regularities. 

I think it would be fun to hide a real battery in the pile of cast batteries, and then run wires from all of the fake batteries to a light bulb, connecting them all and lighting the light bulb; real battery being un-known of course.
 

PART 2


So i have reached a few conclusions over the last couple of weeks as far as my plans for this project.
First of all as you can see through the process of rubber mold making i have made a lot of plaster batteries and... what is that? Ipods!. i thought it would be fun to play with the relationship between this sources of energy and our reliance/dependence on it for this entertainment that we have been conditioned to love so much!
I have been encouraged to look at these batteries and ipods as objects rather than batteries and ipods and so you can see i have been playing around with organizational patterns trying to find something that clicked. below (image with my hand) you can see me playing with the idea of connecting all of my 'objects' with wires in an attempt to echo even more so the concept of dependence.

Project 1(b)

Inspired by existing work

 

For this idea I started going along the path of awareness. It is said that 50% of marriages end in divorce; I wanted to say something about that.

Project 1 (a)

 

My first idea for project one stemmed from the phrase "Concrete Jungle." I started playing with the idea of how I could represent in a fun way the before mentioned phrase. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I explored the phrase "Concrete Jungle" I started to think about the characteristics of a city. The first thing that came to me were skyscrapers and their ability to somewhat defy gravity by growing into the sky. Obviously i am aware of the fact that this is 'not' an actual defying of gravity but is in fact the exemplification of gravity.

Either way ... Antigravity 

So then i thought of the super fun toy most of us had growing up; Barrel of Monkeys!

 I thought that monkeys would be an awesome tool to use for the 'Jungle' part of my phrase! I thought it would be cool to link the arms of the monkeys with a spot of binding (glue) and then stand them up 'anti-gravitationally.' arranging them in the conceptual form of a city. 



 Because funds are limited for me I'm going to have to use a more viscous material (plaster) than a liquid plastic thus not being able to create the thin monkeys from a mold. So i will have to venture off and come up with some other idea!