Junk Project

 In this enjoyable project each table in trailor 14 had to design some random thing out of junk so that its shadow looked like it was something whole and interesting.  My table started by finding something to make our light a different color, the picture above shows the color best.  We used a small translucent, yellow cup and covered the head of the projector.  After we figured out what color our background would be we had to figure out what to make.

     First we thought of things that could be yellow and decided the sun would be best.  We'd made our decision and went back to the junk pile to find things for eyes, mouth, and sunbeams.  Another person at my table had already found a long strand of tough, green wire and we attempted to curve it so that it looked like sun beams, as shown in the above picture.  However after several tries we decided that the sun beams weren't going to work out because of how hard they were to manipulate.  We turned our attention to the face.  We then proceded to test round objects for the eyes and unique objects for the mouth.  One eye is a giant bead and the other is a plastic wheel from a toy, lastly the mouth is a piece of cardboard.

Even though this project looked rather simple, I am extremely happy with its outcome because looking at it makes me happy and like I've accomplished something.  If I did this project again, I would definitely hook the facial parts up to something so that they didn't have to be held up by hand.  However the most difficult part of the project was figuring out what we were going to make.  It was a hard decision and took most of our time to decide.  In the end I learnt that an art piece doesn't have to be sophisticated to be good to at least one person and/or yourself.