This brief was possibly one of my favourites. It all started with a quote about Repetition being the 'ritual of obsession.' and ended in awesome paper sculptures. Working with paper, we had to create a three dimensional response to the word repeat. The final outcome should not include additional print. The University brought in Richard Sweeny - a charmingly quiet and talented young man who's amazing looking structures were based around natural objects. He taught us basic folds and cuts and let us get on with it, and so followed several weeks of paper play!





Following Richard's example, my sculpture, whatever it would be, would be based on natural shapes. we each spent the week testing the limitations of paper.



Having a bit of an obsession with paper origami myself, i ended up using the japanese lily fold to make a 'kelp forest.' I changed the basic fold though, to make a neater and more clean looking lily.



I used loads of different paper weights to find the most stable, and found that ordinary bleached 90 gsm cartridge paper was fine for my purpose. Though i adored the brief, i made so much work for myself! My vision was that i'd make loads of 'kelp' strands that would hang from the ceiling in the hubs and reach down to the basement level. Well that never happened! even though i took pre-cut paper squares everywhere i went, meals out, to uni, work and at parties (yes, i sat at parties folding paper…) i only managed to make about 550 flowers in a week(!) unfortunately this wasn't enough. Also the more flowers i strung onto the wire, the more the flowers squashed up - the weight of the flowers on top made the flowers on the bottom flatter, and so the more i put on, the shorter the structure became. That was a big design flaw. If i did the whole thing again, i'd tape each flower to the wire, instead of threading, therefore keeping each flower separate and making the 'kelp' longer It ended up looking like this: