Bird

Project 9 was created in my second semester at MassArt for the Design as Experience class. For this project I had to create a visual response to Chris and Alex’s project. Their response to this short story lead me to create an artifact of what one of the birds might look like.

Process

The doing phase became the main platform for this project. I had an idea in my subconscious of constructing a bird, but I did not know how or what is was going to look like. My process consisted of three phases.

Phase one was the construction of the body and the feet of the bird which was to be done with hanging wire. One segment lead to another forming the skeletal structure of what the body would look like.

In phase two I felt the need to have some resemblance of nature. What better way to convey this was by the use of fallen leave stems from outside. This allowed me to construct small groupings being held together by hanging wire at one end. When I experimented with overlapping them it started to form a shape that I later used to be placed inside the wire structure.

Phase three allowed me to incorporate the stuffing of the bird with feathers. The addition to the artifact gave the appearance of being both attractive and a little disturbing at the same time.

Conclusion

This process allowed me to combine what I have learned in previous projects. By trusting my instinct first saved me a lot of time. While the freedom of exploring was really exciting for me and to not deviate from the doing phase of it.