Reasonable Facsimiles

A quick warm up to Spring '21 studio project, meant to inspire rapid ideation and building with physical materials. The class was assigned to find everyday common household objects and build them to scale. This project was early on in the pandemic and as students we were left to our own resources to build with materials that were either easy to come by or already on hand.

TIME:

2 weeks

TEAM:

Solo

TOOLS:

Cardboard

Box cutter

Hot Glue

Wax

Carpet

Illustrator + Photoshop

This project was one I thoroughly enjoyed, I love working with physical materials and cutting and building. I spent a most of this project sitting on my floor with a hot glue gun in hand.

The driving concept behind this project was public facilities, public facing works, social structures and social media. I wanted to place an emphasis on objects that are often neglected, so common they become invisible. I started by taking a walk through my neighborhood and a local park. I tried paying especially close attention to the objects that seemingly belong to no one, yet to everyone. The objects that are often seen as gross, the ones that immediately make you reach for hand sanitizer. I framed these objects the opposite way, in a cute and intimate manner. What would it look like if these objects played an intimate role in one's life? What would it look like if one was best friends with this object? How would they be shared online?

Fire Hydrant

(Empty candle jar, shampoo bottle, cardboard, old bathroom rugs, yarn, hot glue, 2 liter bottle lids, thread)