Final Evaluation
I started this project with the intention of creating
an album cover for a friend’s band. However as I gathered research into album
art and generated visual ideas for possible album art for the band communication
with the band became almost none existent despite me asking them for feedback
of possible ideas etcetera I soon realised that time was running out so I decided
to re think my ideas. I decided to look at my favourite album art and decided
to listen to that album to see what ideas I could think of with the music
alone. This triggered me to focus on one song in particular. Having chosen the
song I then listened to the song and read through the lyrics trying to pick out
the more imaginative and visual aspects of the song. It wasn’t until I listened
to ‘in my field of paper flowers’ that I thought why don’t I try and make paper
flowers. This spare of the moment idea set the scene for the rest of the
project. Having decided on a path to go down I then set about looking up
various types of origami that I could use to potentially create my own ‘field
of paper flowers’. With this in mind I needed to find a moderately simple style
of origami I started off by making a kusudama flower, this was simple to make
each section of the flower but when I began to stick each section together I
came into difficulty. I then decided to make a traditional tulip. The folding
process of the flower was more complex in comparison to the kusudama flower but
the tulip didn’t require any sticking together making the tulip the flower of
choice. It is a simple flower that I could produce in vast amounts given that
it takes a couple of minutes to construct each flower. Once I decided on the
type of flower I would focus on I turned my attention to what paper I would
make them out of. At first this started off by using plain cartridge paper. I used
this just until I was used to the folds of the flower and was confident enough
to produce the flowers. I then moved onto creating flowers out of coloured
paper and textured papers. Having produced a number of flowers like this I then
went and looked through a pile of papers I inherited from my grandmother, these
consisted of square pieces of floral and mixed colours/patterns. I looked
through them and picked out the ones which I felt would fit in with the theme
of flowers. I then made flowers out of the paper. I then felt it would be nice
if I designed my own paper. These designed papers printed out well and really
add a unique twist to my final piece and it also allowed me to relate the
actual paper to the song and band my final piece related to. Having finished
the project I think my final piece has turned out different that originally
intended but better and much more aesthetically pleasing to a wider audience. If
I was to re-create the project or do a similar thing I would design more of my
own papers and create a wider range of sizes of flowers.
