Project 2: Serial Planes Studies

Here are some examples of serial planes. Some are found in everyday life, others are pieces artist's have made.

                                          

Here are my sketches for the first phase of the project: the  book

Next I began on the model for phase two: foam board

After making the model I began working on the real project.

          In our second project, we were asked to transform both a book and a piece of white foam board into a serial planes piece. When researching serial planes I came across many interesting things. I was shocked to see how many everyday objects were actually serial planes.

          The first phase of the project involved a book. I choose a paper back book, Outcasts United. My idea for transforming this book was to make a backyard tree house scene. Later, however I changed my ideal to a jungle scene. I started out by making a tree, pulling and ripping apart the pages and twisting them until they stood up straight. I then started making the grass by cutting small strips in the pages and rolling them up. I rolled the strips in different directions in hopes of adding more volume to the piece. After I had made a lot of the "grass" I decided that another tree would help balance out the book. I was very pleased with the finished product of my book. It had a mystical feel to it which I really liked.  The one thing that gave me trouble with the book was finding a way for the trees to stay standing. The grass was not strong enough to hold it up, and although they did stand up, they were easily knocked over.

          The second phase of the project we worked with white foam board. Unlike the book I did not have a clear idea about what I wanted to make. When building my model I cut out several triangles, because they are a very unique shape. Triangle can look very different depending on the angles you cut them at. I began gluing them together and stacking them on top of one another. Some of the triangle I scored and bent, others had cut outs in them. When I began building the real project I based it off my model, and just made larger triangles. I made a lot more triangles that bent and were cut out. No side is alike on this piece. From each angle that you look at, the eyes catches something different. There is a lot of negative space which allows light to pass through. I had a lot of fun making this piece because I was just making it up as I went along.