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Nearly 30 years ago I did a degree in Design (Visual Communication). It was absolutely formative in bringing me to where I am today.<\/p>\n
Probably because of some feedback from one of my uni assignments, I came to believe that I wasn’t very good at pushing my designs. I think I understood that I settled for “yeah, that will do” way too early. However, looking back at this project, I don’t think that was entirely true. (Since then, this is something that I have striven to do: push my designs hard to ensure that they are well resolved.)<\/p>\n
I call this my mace and it was made for my model making class. It is made of glue and light-weight card only. It came from my imagination, from ideas gleaned elsewhere and reinterpreted through experimentation.<\/p>\n
I wanted to make a sphere. I probably had seen in a book how they could be pieced together rather like patchwork, from geometrical shapes. And doing that would have been interesting enough, but I wanted to take my design further.<\/p>\n
A square pyramid was substituted for a square “patch”. The triangular shapes became triangular pyramids. I still wanted to take my design further.<\/p>\n
I inverted the point of the pyramids through a hole cut in the base. I didn’t bend the paper point through the hole in the base – that would not have worked as the paper would have crumpled! I cut the pattern shape, then folded and manipulated the parts through the hole and then glued them together in the final shape. Although it was 30 years ago, I still remember it was incredibly fiddly!<\/p>\n
I made 30 of these square pyramids. They were glued together as the main framework. In the centre of each space between, I fitted an inverted pyramid with an equilateral triangle base. That left isosceles triangles between. I decided it was going to be WAY too hard to make isosceles inverted pyramids, so they are just “patches”.<\/p>\n
Being 30 years old, some of the points are now looking a little bent, however I am still incredibly proud of it. I feel this is one of the most original things I have ever made. Somehow I turned flat paper and glue into this spiky, menacing ball! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Probably because of some feedback from one of my uni assignments, I came to believe that I wasn’t very good at pushing my designs. I think I understood that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-stuff","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}