Week 2: Paper Folding

Step 1:

My selected work was the Drawbridge. In the paper folding exercise I wanted to achieve the concepts of chaos - where I crumpled the paper, which may be hard to see - and also a sense of feeling trapped and finding a route to escape, in which I attempted to create pathways in the form of a maze/labyrinth. I chose to do it more flat, to maximise the use of the area of the paper leading into another concept of large space.

Step 2:

Piranesi's capriccio work comprises of several ruins, I picked three of his works of ruined columns and used common themes to do the paper exercise. The result is straight forward, I used the concept of fragility and its 'oldness', hence the crumple of the paper to represent this. As we were not allowed to completely rip the paper, I ripped a few sections to show its damage as well. The overall shape is a cylindrical - corresponding to a column.

Sources:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-262449

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-261496

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-262334

Step 3:

The last exercise allowed us to use multiple pieces of paper, I ended only used two pieces of paper to mimic the selected work from Piranesi's series - Vedute di Roma. 

Source:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/giovanni-battista-piranesi#supersized-capriccio-261447