Arrival of the triangles

P E R S P E X  T R I A N G L E S 

Finally after waiting the best part of a week, our perspex arrived and the lazer cutting was done so we could finally get on with fitting our work to the triangular shape with a week to spare before the exhibition. Beki created the triangles on the lazer cutter and Aden managed to squeeze us in to his busy schedule and so luckily it didn't take long between the perspex arriving and the triangles being cut. Each of us had just the right amount of triangles which worked out as 22 each with a few spares just in case. Each triangle had 3mm holes in each corner for attaching together later on. 

We are still going to continue with the sandwich idea but instead of using felt for the backing we can now use something cheaper as we don't have to worry about it scratching the tables anymore. Instead of putting our work on the tables we are now thinking of ways to exhibit our work in the Kraak Gallery. As we haven't seen the gallery and don't know how much space we can have until we get there, this is pretty hard to plan. However we have come up with the idea of nailing our tiles to the wall and floor in order to create a flowing piece of work around a space. As well as this I want to stitch similar sized triangles together in order to make 3 dimensional pyramids. Personally, I think the more of these we have the better and more interesting our installation will look, however, putting up all of our work may take long enough anyway, so I think the amount of 3D pyramids will depend mainly on the time aspect.       Hopefully the film and media students are going to make the film as previously mentioned. We all feel that this would look brilliant projected onto a wall near or in between our work to show us constructing the piece. 

This week we have also had a tutorial and discussed some ideas in order to make our triangles look a little less flat. Eloise and I went down to the print room to speak to a technician about the ways that this would be possible on top of perspex. We came up with the idea of flocking. As Eloise and I have used embroidery in our work, we wanted to create holes in our perspex so that we could stitch on the outside of the perpsex aswell making it more textural, however after speaking to the technicians in woodwork, we found out that our original idea of using a drill to create these holes was not possible as the perspex could crack easily. Lazer cutting would be the only possibility but unfortunately it was too late as Aden had too much of a busy schedule. 

Due to our plan not being able to work we spoke as a group about the possibility of adding text on top of our perspex. We didn't know how to do this without the text rubbing off of the perspex. I decided to look into this further and googled it roughly in hope of finding a method.