Sustains:
I think what I did well was that I was innovative in coming up with an unexpected and different yet simple way of attaching my brooches to the shirt. I was able to get to this point by going through a couple of steps. First I brainstormed and thought about all of the different brooches I can remember coming across. One in particular came to mind...I think it was Rebecca's idea last semester maybe...she had a brooch attached to the inside of the shirt somehow and i tried to remember how she attached it and rubber bands made sense to me, although I don't think she used those. I explored different methods of attachment for my creative caffeine assignment and tried incorporating my rubber band thoughts until I found something that worked!
Improves:
One of the things that didn't work so well was my choice of glue. I used super glue to glue the pieces of the can together and this got messy. The super glue dried into a white crusty mess that I couldn't clean off the sides of the brooch. The hot glue I used to hold the twigs, rocks and pine needles in place was very ugly and distracting. I knew that using both of these glues was going to yield a messy outcome but in my mind those two glues were my only option. That is because I never explored different methods. I should have done a creative caffeine assignment on this too.
Another thing I think didn't work as well was my choice of twigs and rocks in two of the brooches. They were the first two I created and knew they were boring as soon as I made my third one with the pine needles. I should have kept going with that and should have further explored a maquette I made with moss inside.
What Ifs:
I think the project would have been more successful if I had displayed the brooches differently. I think it was wise to go about displaying two of them on fabric and wearing one, however I came very unprepared in that respect and had to borrow fabric from Jo (thanks by the way!). I pinned it up quickly without any thought and stuck my brooches on there. It looked very sloppy and unprofessional in my opinion. If I could do it again I would spend a lot more time on this because I realized at this last critique that the presentation is one of the most important parts of making something!
Monday, September 22, 2008
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