This lesson was a great way of exploring and making sculptures made from books. The teacher examples were really well done and i think that really helped to engage everyone in this project, to see what was possible to accomplish. I did however, have this initial hesitance in cutting up the pages of a book. Some people didn't have that problem because they felt that they didn't own the book so there was no personal connection, but I still had a problem. I think it's because it was just one of those things that was ingrained in me as a child, that books were something very special to have and you don't destroy them. But for the sake of the project and my curiosity, I got past it.
I had some issues in choosing a subject to portray from my book because I chose an encyclopedia and there was too much material to choose from. I thought that there was definitely a variety of books to choose from though. The other issue that the lesson presented was the idea of additive and subtractive processes when making the sculptures. I don't think I was as aware of this when I was making my sculpture because I was concentrating more on just making it. I understood the concept of additive and subtractive methods, but i guess it could be argued that we weren't really adding or subtracting anything because it was all taken from the book itself. I can see it both ways I suppose, you are using additive and subtractive methods, but maybe there shouldn't have had so much emphasis on it during the lesson.
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