This was the second of this terms process and production session with Nick, which focused on developing the ideas we had in the first week, and turning them into physical specimens. I decided that I wanted to use cotton wool. I liked this idea because the nature of the wool would allow me to fluff out the edges and kind of blur out the shape of the letters, posing a question of where the shape definitively began.
I started out just by making the shape of the letters by tearing apart the cotton wool and fluffing it up a little bit, and using different bits to make up the shape of the letter. This gave two effects, it added a bit of depth as bits piled on top of each other, as well as the desired the fluffy effect.
The next step of the process was to begin to think about the next development. My idea was to take it a more 3D solution which used a twist on perspective, and anamorphism. Using string or fishing line to hang individual pieces of cotton that would only make sense from one particular view point, and would just look like pieces of cotton on string from all over.This would involve having different levels of string set up behind each other to give depth. The cotton wool would have to be on pieces of different length in order to form the shape of the letters. If done correctly the piece should look as if the cotton wool were all at the same level, merging together to form the desired word.
