Due Oct.5
PAPER CUTTING WEEK
· Reveal poetry by cutting away layers from existing text (magazines or books)
What is poetry to you? Can you take words from existing texts in a book, and make your own poem? Does your poetry involve images or shapes? Cut away, and create!
2. · Merge with an existing object Can you create a papercut that's shaped like one cobblestone on a cobblestone path? Or a single tile on the floor? Or a leaf hanging on a full branch? Explore patterns and illusions. Confuse us!
3. NO PAPER Papercut What else can you cut from? Aluminium foil? Cloth? Food? Metal? Shoes? A leaf? Celebrate its texture, tangibility, malleability, structure, colour, natural form, etc. Think about how it guides your process and compare it to your other paper-based experiments.
4. · Performative selfie Moving or static, that's up to you! How can you use your papercut creation in a unique way? Do you project shadows on yourself, conceal yourself, dance with it, or just stick it to your body? Get weird! Also — for some inspiration, check out Dakota Noot.
5. · Play with sunlight How does it play with sunlight at dawn? Early morning? Noon? Sunset? Sunlight filtering through the trees? Where else can you capture sunlight? Celebrate how beautiful natural sunlight is!
6. · Play with artificial light & shadow You have so many sources of artificial light around you. No, not just your cell phone. What about your laptop screen? TV? Electric candle? Fairy lights? Table lamp? What else?
7. · Food Blogger Represent a recent meal through papercuts -OR- incorporate papercuts into your plate of food. Think about colour, form, simplicity, shapes, angles and paper texture, weight, and malleability. Pretend that you're an experimental food blogger in this scenario.
8. · Wearable accessory Drape it, put it in your hair, attach it to your clothes, sew it to your pocket, wear it on your arms, make toe rings. You're a paper fashion expert; make your statement piece!
9. Save and show the cutout pieces in 3 different ways
Nothing is wasteful here! Save the pieces you cut out, and use them creatively. Are they scattered on something to add texture? Carefully rearranged to form an image? Or manipulated to form a sea of paper sculptures? Zoom in, zoom out, look at them through different angles.
10 · Play with reflection
Explore reflective surfaces... mirrors, metal, water, glass, you name it. Play with illusions, perspectives, and distortion. Is it interesting to see the actual papercut and its reflection together? Or only its reflection?
Misc I don’t know where these fall yet
