process book 2

Tension.
This piece is not as legible as I had hoped however, I’m
not entirely unhappy with how the viewer has to work
to figure it out. Trimming the excess rope of the letters
and burning it with a lighter really cleaned up the letter
forms but I think they are still kind of illegible. If
I were to do it again, I would ad a little bit more space
between the words of the top row so that they acted a
little bit more as different words.
When photographing the piece, the shadows cast by
the ropes were extremely problematic. I struggled to
find poses that were remotely legible. However, in the
end, the introduction of hands and actual tension pulling
apart the wooden rods made the piece a lot more
legible and the photographs more interesting.
This piece went very smoothly! I was very
maticulous with the planning of it which
paid off. I measured out how much space
each letter should get, counted the number
of nails and rubber bands I needed,
sketched out the letters, and then easily
made the piece. At first, I was going to just
do one rubber band from nail to nail but I
ended up adding more to create more texture
which I think was very successful.