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When I spied these colourful sticks I had to have them. The bright colours are definately in the scope of Joy and when set vertically they look completely different from above and from street level. From the top the circles are like the joyful abundance of coloured confetti (from the Joy Ted Talk I previously wrote about). From street level the posts are like a jungle, explore amongst the colourful trunks. I tried two types of layouts, a straight vertical grouping, and a grouping using various angles. I prefer the random angles, I feel it is more interesting and more natural looking.

I picked up some small pieces of driftwood from St Heliers beach. I thought it would be interesting to hang them like swings or rope ladders. The rope is like the rope that boats use to tie up to a wharf. Driftwood has really interesting natural shapes that machined timber will never have. 

I have used three different shells from St Heliers beach to make imprints into plaster. From a photo it is unclear if the indents are concave but it is very obvious in reality that they are. I really like this idea of shell grooves either as decoration or as a scaled up version that could be used to sit in and play in, when it rains it would create a city style rock pool.

There are a few surface types in this model. The ramp is made the same way as the previous waves model - plaster slope with sticks to represent boardwalk timber. I have added shell imprints on the sides of the ramp which adds an interesting detail and pulls the whole beach theme together. The posts are like the poles from a jetty made into a barrier wall. It is an interesting juxtaposition with the horizontal smaller square timber against the same shade of timber but vertical and round posts. The posts are tied together with rope which would be the same as the rope used on boats to tie them to a wharf.

This time I made a wave shape out of plaster and used sticks to represent the timber of a boardwalk. From above the waves aren’t defined clearly, but from the side they have a steep rise and fall.

I chose to learn more about this surface as it is a design that replicates water, which is something I am thinking about doing in Fort Lane. It is interesting to see how in-depth the reasoning behind the shapes and materials are. It has a very personal and historical meaning which isn’t apparent just from looking at the walls.

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