Representational Collage: Material Exploration

"To guide your study, think carefully about a specific material exploration which will strengthen your conceptual ideas. Challenge and explore the juxtaposition of 2 materials appropriate to your concepts. Investigate their tactility, transparency, movement, spectral qualities, bending and breaking points etc., and communicate visually the versatility of your material systems."

My initial material study displays this self-inflicted restraint within design —the wire restricting and thus causing a specific course of action for the balloon. The action is self-induced, as I the designer, chose the way in which to bend or not bend the wire, the length, the diameter of each spiral, etc.. This study is a reflection of the restrictions of one’s own body, in the way in which it restrains itself through form.

My second material study explores another symbiotic relationship between forms at play, using tights to create a space through the ideas of restraint and encapsulation. I wanted to illustrate, not only, the give and take relationship between materials, specifically between the tights and wooden dowels, but the space created as a result of their relationship.