Space and Materiality Week 9

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

This space and materiality lesson was one where I had completely failed on my bamboo and rubber model. No excuses. It was a completely awful and futile choice of material as It did not have the capabilities to cater to my model prototype.
Bamboo is a brittle material which requires a certain twisting tying and cutting process for it to bend in a circular form. It burns on heat treatment and is easily breakable when too much pressure is applied to bend it further.
The tougher task was to fuse the material with rubber. In the case of bamboo almost no adhesive is capable to bind its branches together let alone it be bound with rubber. Fevicol, Fevistick, Fevibond, ropes. All of them with a hammer and some extra strong hands might help you bend bamboo but before you know it, the bamboo will break and so will your willpower to work with it any longer. My suggestion: Stay away from bamboo unless and until its a project requiring high tensile strength and structural capabilities to hold large weights.
Moving on, In this lesson, we were assigned in pairs to figure out some connection points between two bodies during a given interaction. It was a lesson where we were to ideate and create wearable models that showcase the emotion of a certain point of contact between two bodies. We were told to use the works of Tracy Featherstone and Jennifer Tropez as a reference both using wood and precious metal respectively to use them as rare wearable items. To me, this was an unconventional modern and aesthetic take on fashion using expressions of a variety of postures and gestures to indicate a flamboyant representation of creativity in body language.
In this lesson, Khushfrin and I shortlisted a few points of contacts between two individuals to work with for our working model:
Kiss on the forehead
Hug
I had a few ideas regarding the same points of contact for the working model.
I was thinking about using a small led light, a mask and a headgear made out of wood to make a wearable model for the same action as mentioned above.