A blog about three years of Interior design. Reseach Tool
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This project is being very exciting but difficult. Exciting because we have had very interesting lectures, nice workshops, an amazing working space “Hotspur House”, the people of Hotspur and our tutors. I think all of us have learn a lot of things from them. Also I think we´ve learnt a lot in terms of working in groups and which is your role in a group.
The “work in groups part” is been the most difficult and the one I´ve learnt the most. I think the groups were very big and there were a lot of people that didn´t care about the rest of the group. So, all the time that the group lost arguing with the person which demonstrated that didn´t care would be used for making a much more better piece of art of installation. But also is a experience and I´ve learnt that if you want you can and you MAKE IT WORK.
After having the bad experience of a broken full installation we had to fix the problem. The group decided to come back to a very early idea of mine of how to attach the pieces to the plinth. The idea was cutting pieces of wood with the shape of the bottom of the pieces. Then this wood is putted inside the pice, i.e.an arm, as a filling and attached to it with screws. At the same time attach the arm by the piece of wood to another, rectangular this time, piece of wood. Then, we had attached the piece of arm to the second piece of wood we have the arm -in this case- ready to be attached safely to the plinth.
And now the problem is the bandalism of the people. We fixed the problem very easily. We decide to put it up and down everyday. It will be only during the exhivition days and times. :(
I went five hours after putting the mannequins on the plinth, to Stevenson Square to see how was the installation going. I got very surprised because actually, when I arrived there were a group of people chating about the installation. They were saying that the installation was cool and veeeery freak, that was almost creepy. I´m happy for this comments because it was actually the feedback I was looking for.[[posterous-content:pid___0]]
The mannequins are finally attached to the plinth with nails. We place them randomly on it but as a result of perfectionism I tried to put them alineated, trying a perfect composition… but I just didn´t look as we wanted. It have to look like creepy, like if they are coming from the hell… Like the reborn of the fashion industry. Finaly we placed them almost random but taking care over the composition.
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We tried two ways to attach it. One, effective but expensive and other one cheaper but not that effective. The expensive one was attrach the piece of mannequin to a metal piece and then screw the metal piece to the wood. This one was apparently effective but each piece of metal was 2 pounds and we needed at least 50, so at the end it was going to be a no-way solution. The second one consist in attach the pieces with cement to the wood. It didn´t work but we made it work. After the first failiure, we decided to add the use of nails and screws to attach them. The process consisted in screw a screw from the bottom of the wood, then put the cement on the longest part of the screw that also covers the inside of the piece to join perfectly both pieces. It worked!! and the cement was only 6 pounds!
