and so it begins...
- naga nandini
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min read
Paper Towers: I start my first experiment with making...
What?
I start with making without a purpose. I use cardboard from packaging as I resolve not to buy any material. I try a few joints and decide to use the classic half lap joint normally used in boards. I have no plan except to replicate the joints and build a tower of sorts. It starts with a little tussle with the material, when we are both going in different ways, but we settle down soon and soon I'm engrossed.
The last part of finishing is also tough as I have to push myself to 'complete' although there is no definition of what is complete. The end result is like a first sketch of an idea with uneven lines.
So what?
Ok, so made a slightly leaning tower with waste paper roughy 9" tall. So what?
Making this was an equivalent of doodling with a pencil, only it requires more focus, since working in 3D is a little more tricky than sketching on paper. Through making this I began to imagine a landscape of towers, some opaque and some transparent that form a landscape. Normally we plan before making, but this time, making without a blue-print yielded this idea of a landscape.
The landscape is important as a metaphor for building on something, constructing thinking.
Now what?
The process of thinking is not complete yet. It is there like a thread in the back of my mind all the time.
I will need to complete this landscape and then construct my story.
*What? So what? Now what?
One of the simplest frameworks of reflection - by moving through three reflective stages, you will think about an experience, its implications, and what that means for the future.
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