Constraints

Hannah

As there are so many possibilities the best thing to start with are the items we are interested in. We should aim to get as many items as we can for free and should spend no more than ten pounds on everything (our challenge). Once we have collected our items we should post them to the blog with drawings that we have made of the possible combinations. When we have this we will know more about our shapes and weights and see what might occur to us about how to bring together into a mobile. the objects themselves might give us clues.

I have decided I will only use cardboard and string - the following links are interesting images for inspiration
Cardboard and string 1

Cardboard and string 2

Cardboard and string 3


A poem from the book of poetry 'The Age of Cardboard and String' by Charles Boyle that I will use for inspiration

THE PINK HOTEL

We renamed the street after our favourite songs
and sat on the sun-deck of the Pink Hotel
watching drivers get first confused, then angry,
then tearing their maps into bite-sized pieces.

A waiter frisked us for prohibited substances.
Small children approached in ones and twos
and shyly asked who wrote the lyrics
of the road to the cottage hospital.

It dawned upon us we were running late,
and as we hurried along to the artist's studio
the children began repainting the hotel
in greens and browns, a precautionary measure.

We posed naked for statues of ourselves.
We woke late, lifelike but blanketed by snow
on which a most delicate crust
had formed overnight.