process book 2

Comfort.
The construction of the wire letters was as difficult as
expected, with the use of pilers and force I was able to
create the curves I wanted to. However, wrapping the
yarn was much more complex than anticipated. I had
to, at times, contort my body and the letters to ensure
that I would be wrapping the correct part of the wire
with yarn. After it’s creation, it was very strong and I
was able to photograph and transport it to different
environments.
I had difficulties photographing this piece. The first
photograph against the white wall is not ineteresting
at all, it does not feel like comfort. The environment
makes the project feel much less successful. After
making these realizations, I had to curate the environment
to also embody the emotion. Going off of tactile
comfort, I decided to photograph it against the blue
blanket for the pop of color and sense of softness.
When creating this piece, I cut each of the letters
by hand and used a sugar cookie recipe that said it
would hold it shape, which was true for the most part!
Unfortunately, when I attempted to take the cookies
off of the tray, more than half of them broke because I
did not use parchment paper which wasn’t extremely
comforting...
After sadly staring at the broken cookies for about two
weeks, I decided to super glue them together. Conceptually,
this alludes to the idea of comfort that isn’t
perfect. You may be broken but “you’re not alone”. As
you can see from the picture, the super glue worked. I
decided to put them on top of the sweater to reference
physical comfort similar to the other comfort pieces.