Genius Hour: Passion Projects

The postponed 'Passion Projects' was started in the previous week. The 'Genius Hour'  as called was on the way. The previous week was the time where we started to plan, we got into a group containing 7 individuals and began to think of the project. The discussion that we had concluded into creating a sculpture, a Japanese inspired sculpture. We have decided to add additional limitations to the sculpture such as it needing to be in majority, sustainable. The sculpture that we are currently making is life-sized around an average height. The materials are mostly junk, cardboard, newspaper and other junk materials are being used to create the sculpture. 

The idea from the sculpture originated from a Kabuki play a form of theatre, a Japanese play, that I recently watched. The character titled "King of the Beasts" is what the sculpture is. In addition to the character originating from Japanese origins; the style in which we are building the sculpture also is in the style of Japan. Specifically "Miyadaiku" is a style of carpentry in which works by making joints in the woods and putting them together. It doesn't use any glue, adhesives or nails. However, there are minor pieces where we can't use this technique. 

"Driving Question" How can we use sustainable materials(recycle), such as newspaper and cardboard to create art--life-size sculpture?

The activity from the past week has been detailed in the following text:

 

Term 3 - 4	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday  (optional)	Sunday (optional)
Week 8	Brainstorm ideas, we chose to create a lifesize sculpture using sustainable materials.	We created a plan and the measurement of the sculpture, we also thought about the materials we needed.	We began to measure the cardboard around the torso including arms and hands.	We cut out the pieces that we measured around the torso including arms and hands.	Measuring and cutting the body, head and put together some of the pieces cut.

 

Week 9

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Reflection Section

We have been working on creating the Hair/ Wig. Using newspaper in strips we have been glueing on a base that is detachable. The base could be attached to the head when needed. The upper body began including the shoulders and arms.

We continue to create and attach hair to the wig. The wig is beginning to the longer. For the second structure The upper body is reinforced. The lower body is being planned.

Hair/ Wig is still in continuation for both the first and second structure. The upper body is finished for both of the structures and the head is placed. The lower body is being prepared and in process.