Folding Paper 3

YEAR ONE DAY THREE

Back to basics indeed.  A3 paper.  Scissors allowed, no tape.  ( I didn't bring scissors and didn't fancy dropping money on them in the shop, so we persevere.  I wasn't even supposed to be in today, after all)  And... a frustrating morning, really. Mostly.  Half of it.

Not gonna lie, there did come a point where I wondered what I was doing there.  Everything seemed to be going wrong, and I even had my music on random, thus messing up the music I was listening to.   A3 was proving too big for what I was trying to do, and you'd have thought I'd be primed by yesterday but...  I had no idea how to stabilise the pieces, the paper wouldn't hold a curl and I couldn't tear a straight line (against the grain or with it) to save my life.

I found myself wondering what could be done with a pair of scissors, and realised, not much.  My head, my perception works around bold images.  Straight lines and the way they cut across one another.  Taking shapes out of the paper or adding new structure to the edges wouldn't have helped.  I simply wasn't dealing with the paper as well as I had hoped.

I wasn't even missing the tape.  That would have implied that my objects were working if only I could hold them together, and that wasn't the case.  They were just not working.  I folded some lines randomly across a new sheet, stood it against the wall, and took five minutes out to write and try and pull myself together.

And always remember kids: When in doubt, KISS.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

So I cam back, and went for the simplest idea I could think of.  Divide the paper into quarters.  fold up from each quarter.  Then fold across the middle, and...  hey, that's not a bad shape, actually.  I liked it.  It had form, structure and depth, and the possibility of variation. So that's what I did.  The next two I made were with some slight variation as to where the main folding over line would go.  Giving extra depth and shadow.  Subtle variations, but variations none the less.  And the fourth had the biggest variance. The fold over line occurred perpendicular to the others.  This produced a much wider, shallower piece.  Similar, but much different.  Taken with the last pre-break object, the five pieces worked well together, forms of a likeness, similarly constructed and born of conflicting emotions, and yet different.  Maybe I'll crack this after all..

There is, I realised later, an inherently sexuality to these.  I'm going to hold off on mentioning that until I see if anyone else picks up on it...