#folding forms

Last part of this workshop was the envelope poem. I chose a small poem be Emily Dickinson titled ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’ that I thought fits with my Stranger brief and wrote it inside a used envelope. I played around with the transparency of the envelope’s window so depending on the way of the folding, the poem is sometimes visible but other times blurred and unreadable. This is something that I find connects with me personally and the brief that I chose to explore. Sometimes I find myself hidden, out of sight not able to be understood(’Nobody’) but also the other way around: I find everyone around me not able to be understood.

Final images, after the wax dipping. I like it, it looks natural, raw, the wax is very thin, so you can still feel the texture of the folded paper

Image from pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/180707003783909725/

Very interesting the light that comes through the foldings, combining with the different papers. I think this is a very effective way to enhance the contrasts that my brief is also all about.

We begun by making A4 paper airplanes in various models which then checked them to see if they could fly. We progressed into large papers and making the same models, compered the effectiveness and ability to fly. 

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