We were given out a word to inspire us, start us off in making something. I got Press. What immediately popped into my mind was the media, newspapers and the like. I then thought of the phrase, being pressed into doing something. It was also pointed out to me that Press could be taken more literally e.g. press down paper, if you hammer something you are pressing it down in a forceful manner.
I ran away with the idea press, and experimented with folding newspaper. I then found it could be attached to make a kind of hat that can cover the eyes, making a statement about our ideas of freedom of the press.
Here is Erin modelling the idea:
This shows the original idea, Hannah days it looks like a torture instrument. Fair enough.
Then Rosemary picked it up and put it in her head like so:
It now resembles more of a nice hat, or maybe a Roman solider helmet.
The shapes are somewhat similar to a printing press
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| From http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-0000.25.911 |
To develop this idea, I could look into the shapes of printing presses and develop headgear based on the ideas of their shapes.
That will be enough for now.
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