Chloe small world ideas

2/20/23

I don’t have any new pictures for an update but since this project is due on Tuesday I had just added a few more waves to finish everything up. I had also cleaned up the outside of the container and just cleaned everything up and getting it ready to present. The one thing that I need to make tonight or find is a “person” to put in this installation just to give a better size reference. I have these.

I really do like the way that this installation has turned out. I believe that what I created repersentes represents my idea and sketches from the beginning very well. I think that orientation of this container can be played with. I’m going to be coming in tonight to make the final touches and decide how I want everything to be shown and where to put the final details. 

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 This week I have been finishing up making the waves out of wax. Once I take the wax out of the mold I’ve been cleaning them up, and folding them together to make them 3D. To install I put a light at the bottom of the container and put some wax around it to try and help it not stick out so much. To install the waves what I found to work well is to melt the bottom of the wave and while it was moldable stick it to the inside of the plastic. This method is working very well and so far odd holding up. At the bottom there is open space where the bottom layer of wax is. I would like to put a few more smaller waves down there to cover it up some more and to make it like a little more seamless. One problem I ran into was the first layer of wax was a little too hot of for the container so it warped it a little but it gives a good angle for the viewer to look into the container.

 for this project I have 2 ideas for containers. For my first container I have A laundry detergent container. With this one I want to play on it being for laundry. My first idea with this one would be a packed city with big buildings on both sides, in between the buildings are clothes lines filled with clothes hinting at the size of the world.at the bottom of this city in thinking about putting a "big" pile of laundry. The view point would from be the open the lid of container with the container laying on one of its sides.

I really like the idea of making the clothes out of felt if I do choose to include clothes in this project.   
My second idea for this project is somewhat of what you see when you look in a washing machine. I would like to create this world with huge waves, clothes being thrown around, and maybe little people on boats. For the water I would like ideas on how I could create those I I was thinking maybe paper plastic or I'm not sure for what else.

These are some installations that I would like to take inspiration from for my small world if I decide on the laundry container. The images should the have artist on it. I had liked the look of in in the water in the first and third image. If I decide to to the pile of laundry I would like in to somewhat look like the file of laundry that I had a picture for.

This is my second container for my small world idea. I world like to stick with the theme of nature. Again with this one I do like the idea of using some felt or do needle felting. One thing that I would like to take inspiration from the movie Journey to the center of the earth. in the bug catcher there clear are little containers to catch the bugs and whatever I do with this one like to would use that to house it the people O show scale.

I think in I use this container then I would like to use these installations for inspiration. I like the scale of the plants the texture of the grass, and the colorfulness and texture of the paper in the first image. With the bug catcher it is mesh and I would like to cover that somehow to make only one viewpoint.

This is about my only idea for this one but I do think that the bug catcher is a fun container to use so if anyone does have some ideas for it I would be open to suggestions or ideas on what I could do or even just what to use to create some objects.