Doll

For this one week project we had to create a doll of ourselves but it couldn't be exactly a doll. We had to make something that something to do with our personality traits or with a passed experience.

The week before this project we had done things on the figure and I had made a kind of body. I enjoyed this process so I thought I would try it out here again and see if I could go any further then just sewing up a type of body.

So I started off making different limbs and body parts and I wanted to make them look tied up in a manner so I decided to put wire around each part.

I think that the wire looked interesting on the fabric along with the noticeable thread lines. While I was making each part I was also photocopying the limbs. It transformed the parts in away. It gave the fabric a new texture and greater depth because of the shadow that it cast on the outside of the fabric so I liked how that turned out.

Next I set about attaching the pieces together with thick wire. I turned the wire into coils and attached them to the body with more thread.

For awhile I was unsure what to actually do with the the photocopies of each limb until I started making a collage out of the shapes then I saw that I turned them into a sort of spider/crab type of creature.

So I layered then with a layer of paper and then pleated the legs of the creatures so that they would stand out a bit. Some of them took on the appearance of hands also. I then suspended these from the ceiling so that you could see them turning and withness each angle.

Another thing which I did at the start of this project was to try out different things with wire. Originally I had wanted to make a figure from wire but decided it would be better to just incorporate the wire in a different way. So I started making different coils and shapes with the wire. I really like the coiled shaped so I had to try and use the shape somehow.

Also the crab creatures made sort of interesting puppets. So from start to finish I thought that it was interesting that I went from 3d to 3d to 3d again in order to get a kind of final idea as such.