Fans

Iv been studying my objects to find connections or if there are non disconnections. Two objects struck me the other day as having an obvious visual connection and yet I hadn’t noticed it. My bunch of feathers and this long coiling tin foil camping flue that I have. The flue can be compressed like a spring and if you just hold one side it fans out like the feathers do.

I began making paper fans, like a concertina. This worked very well except I had to be quiet precis or each fold in the fan would be a slightly different size. I think its safe to say that mine are no where near perfect but don’t look so miss-shaped that its obvious. I liked the idea of making my studio book a little bit like a pop up book. So I experimented at sticking fans into my book so that when you open the book they open with it. I like this affect and think it looks a bit like a tutu or a neck ruff. 

One thing I struggled with was getting the fans even on each page of my studio book. If you are even slightly off the fan will get a little bit scrunched up in between the pages instead of remaining neatly folded.

I used tracing paper to get a translucent effect. I also used inks to paint and pattern my fans. One of my objects is a computer chip which has about a hundred tiny little pins on one side. I used this to mark my fans with tiny little dotes. I feel like this was a successful affect, however because of the way I was holding it meant that it sometimes dripped making much bigger splotches. This created a funky affect in itself but if I was going for something more uniform i’d have to come up with a better way of holding my chip.