Large Maze Book Sculptures

 

Again I have came back to looking at mazes.  I love the concept behind it where there are multiple pathways and a lot of confusion and I think it could be really useful if I try and represent this idea through my book making.   

 

Mazes normally have a centre its like a goal that we are working towards and from this idea I want to show the many choices and decisions that we all have to make before we reach this goal. 

 

Here I used an A1 sheet of paper to create this experiment.  I feel this has worked out better than I had expected and the camera has managed to capture this maze effect really well. You begin to see the multiple pathways appearing and I feel this might be something that I take further to develop as a final piece. 

 

 

I feel the next steps for this is to go back to my LA photos and begin experimenting with them on a large scale like this.  Also I need to begin drawing and see if I can create something visually interesting that might go on to the pages of this book. 

 

Here I have began to think more about how i might present my work at my final exhibition.  I need to make sure that I find an effective way that I can show the theme of confusion and when creating these large sculptures I began to photograph them and I thought to myself that my final piece could be a series of photos That in some way shows the confusion of my book effectively, but I do also plan for the book to be on display so that People can view the book in their own way.

Life's Journey

 

 

Here I was looking at my life and what I wanted to focus most on was the many different choices and decisions that I have to make everyday.  When researching into our journey I found this photo that visually showed the multiple choices and decisions that we all have.  What I like most about this photo is that it shows our life as being a maze and I really like this idea as mazes are full of dead ends which could possibly represent all the wrong decisions that we sometimes make before we get to where we want. 

 

 

Here is a page from my sketch book where I was looking at this life's journey idea.  I already was looking at mazes to represent my life as I wanted to focus on the many different pathways that I can choose from.  I want this piece to communicate how I feel about my life right now, which is confused.  I feel that this piece does do this but there is still plenty of room for development, as I like this multiple paths idea that I have created. 

I feel my next steps for this piece is to experiment with scale looking at creating this piece bigger or even smaller.  I also plan to start using my photos from Los Angeles as I feel this would make the piece more personal and also much more interesting. 

Small Maze Sculptures

 

What I have done here is that I have used a plain A4 sheet of paper and folded it like a foldout book but with more folds so that the squares were smaller so that there was  more squares.  What I then done was I created my own maze with multiple starting points that all travelled to the centre 4 squares of the paper as you can see here.

 

I was really happy with what I had created here as I didn't expect it to turn out so well.  As you can see this book sculpture has really adopted this confusing theme as straight away when you look at it you immediately don't know where to start.

As you can see here it is amazing how one sheet of paper can be manipulated and transformed into something that has a lot of meaning behind it.  My next steps for this piece is to experiment with size and also looking at mixing my LA photos with drawing.  

Book Ideas

For my confused book idea I wanted to look at mazes.  I like how mazes are all about confusion where you have to make choices and decisions to travel through it.  what I like most about this idea is that when everyone travels through a maze, each person experience's a different journey and I want this to happen with my book. 

Here are just some of the ideas that I am thinking about. I really like how some of these idea are looking and I feel my next step is to start folding paper and see if these ideas work out.    

Foldout Book

Here I was wanting to create a book that from the outside it just looks like a normal traditional book where you are expecting to open it and have lots of pages to look through.  Instead I have put in one large foldout page.  I do not yet know how I can take this idea further.  I have thought about looking at experimenting more with maps and my photos from LA. 

 

 

I really enjoyed creating this book as I found this to be an easy process and simple book to create. 

Life's Journey

This is exactly what I want to create for my final piece, a book that shows this life's journey but also emphasises the many choices and decisions that we all have to think about.  I feel this maze allows us to visually see the multiple pathways that we all can take.