Cardboard City Evaluation

For this project we had to create at first a large cardboard box fort/structure with a team. It had to be planned and structured well. We built the boxes from flat and began using the different sizes to help create a unique structure. Later, after knocking down the structurse we began to make a circle, colluseum like structure out of the already built cardboard boxed. Inside this we put a light in the centre with our metal wire dangeling from a wooden stand. This created a shadow effect much like Borofsky whos work we based our project for the day on. After, the next few lessons were working on our own structures from cardboard and making our own Cardboard City. Other days we were developing ideas.

We mainly used cardboard boxes and used them to build our ideas. At other points we used pen and paper to write down what we think. And I personally used papermashe to cober my cardboard building.

The artists we looked at were Borofsky and Boltanski who looked at art that was natural, different and could be re-used. Borofskys work was mainly looking at the Holocaust and the dark side to it using his shadow effects, mich like the one we portrayed, to show the horror of the holocaust.

I believe this project went well, and it was fun as it involved team work and cooperation with others to complete tasks. I would have liked to have had something to show in hand after the project but photo evidence was a good way to keep track of progress and also helped with the photography sode to art which is sometimes not brought up enough. My skills such as teamwork and cretiveness were really put to the test in this project but I believe it helped and was a good thing as I got to know people better who are my friends now, but were only aquaintances at the time. Ive also began to see that not everything has to be redone to make it perfect of exactly how you imagined it, but making it along the lines of your idea gives it a personal, unique touch which doesnt take too long to create.