10 April 2012

Day 3

Today I brought in a variety of types of clear plastic. I was initially thinking metal but after pricing what it'd cost and looking at my bank account, idecided that I needed an alternative. I went to three different stores tolook for colored clear solo cups, but to my dismay they only had the solid colored and clear colored ones. Once I decided to grab the clear ones, i also grabbed clear plastic silverware and plastic wrap. Ideas spiraled in my head about options what to do with these ranging from melting the silverware onto Toby to create his form, to covering him entirely with plastic wrapand melting it. One idea was to cut the cups into spirals and spiral them around his form possibly painting them later- which was the winning idea. I sliced the tops and bottoms of the cups off andcut them into spirals. I got a package of 24 and found that I will need at least four more packages. I also covered Toby in plastic wrap in hopes to diffusing the visual stye of the metal under the clear cups. In turn Toby is beginning to look sparklie and mystical - which was the goal. here's some process pictures - i can't adhere the cups until I have bought and applied the rest of the plastic wrap that I hope to form Toby with.

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