Research
Concept Statement Draft
Concept Statement 1.0
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12yOiD1t7fZGriTNiYWq5bI0LekyUve2E1JslWV2FZdw/edit
Concept Statement 2.0
https://notability.com/n/mHXY8j8080AvkuNJGwt2T
Netflix Show: Squid Games
https://www.netflix.com/title/81040344?source=35
https://www.etsy.com/listing/986146961/werewolf-mask-3d-paper-craft-wolf-model?gpla=1&gao=1&
Exercises
Beginning sketches and construction ideas
First trial sketches of visualizing the lion mask.
Construction and transformation of the 2D sketches to a partial 3D mask. We folding inward and taped the parts were tabs were needed.
First experiment of reconstructing the face
Second full mask experiment made of paper
Final full mask made of card stock and Bristol paper.
Gold Spray paint finish
Iterations
Did Do…
- Included mane
- Chose lion mask
- Chose apocalypse narrative
- Followed inspiration from Squid Games
- Bedazzled gold mask with gemstones and such
- Geometrical shape/ sharp edges
- Made a full head wearable mask
Didn’t Do…
- Panther mask
- Brown Ant Mask
- Glitter Accents
- Silver and Gold
- Sliding compactable ant mask
- Wealth hierarchy narrative
Process
In the exercise/ brainstorming period and as soon as the project was introduced, I recognized it as the same project that my friend from DAAP was working on. As soon as they finished their mask project, we began ours. Their rules were slightly different, like they had a shorter time period and the materials were far more strict and it wasn’t a partnered project. It was more about construction than meaning. My friends final project was a huge rhino mask made of Bristol paper. He chose a rhino because they had to do studies of countries and his was Africa. I took a part of his idea and ran it through my brain to find similarities and to me, it reminded me of Squid Games because of the geometrical design.
Me and my partner, Sharon, then began watching Squid Games for research purposes and we found a lot of connections and hidden reasonings behind their masks. We were really intrigued by the sliding mechanism of the ant/ worker masks but we knew it wasn’t attainable in our time frame and moved on.
We began with the lion mask, trying to figure out the cuts and folds of this seamless design. It was really difficult at first, just because I couldn’t wrap my brain around the possibility or the physics of the material. Each fold was bending the wrong way and things overlapped too much. We were close to giving up when I took closer inspection at some other geometric face mask designs.
I noticed their layouts and how they managed to get past our struggles. It finally clicked of how they did it. The layout looked nothing like the finished project so that is what confused us. I recognized these layouts from first semester and our shape project from Design Fundmentals.
I used the skills I learned from this project to think of this shape in a flat sense, working from the inside out and examining each plane. I took inspiration from this earlier project, my personal skills of origami, and others geometrical paper masks.
Images like this helped me when I became blocked. When I was a kid, I got into origami and that skill also helped me in creating the spikes of the mane.
I went home and worked on the project during a weekend, had all the pieces printed out from a printer instead of cutting them out from the Cricket or the laser cutter, and hand cut each piece and folded using the x-acto method Deb taught us first semester.
At first, I did it in plain printer paper to see if it would come other to the right form. Once it did and I figured out each tab and fold, I printed it out again in card-stock. I used multiple colors because I didn’t want to use up all of one color in my card-stock pack. I picked a few pages out of each color and thats why it looks like that. It came out looking really cool because of this and Im glad my mistake worked out.
We had the plan to spray paint it gold the whole time to symbolize the wealth of material. I think it looked really good, especially mature and secretive. This was heightened with the addition of gemstones.
We were also offered to use some of the classrooms gold leaf. Our TA saw our idea and our plan and she thought it would be a good addition. It fit excellently.
The ant mask also came out looking really good, perfectly fitting the theme we set for each of them. The ant mask isn’t a full wrap mask, so I had the idea of tasking a bunch of disposable masks and braiding them together to form a back strap. We worked together to make it look tarnished as well, to fit with the dirty, homemade look of the ant mask. The bandaid and duct tape add to this effect tremendously.
