"Human"

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On the first week of school, for Form Study, we were assigned to follow a strict set of rules; each student had a different set of DIY instructions.  Mine was a bowl made of strips of paper glued together.

For the second part of the project, we were told to keep one element/idea from the first part, to use in the second part.  I kept the rule of strips of paper glued/paper-mached.  We were also told to use a rule/idea from another student's project; I choose the rule of interlocking cardboard.  Otherwise, I had the freedom to do what I wanted to.

I also went on a trip around the school to find where most of the paper recycling is kept (Tower 4th floor, I think).

With this, I made a life-sized human sculpture (aprox. 5'7", or 171cm).  The inside structure is interlocking cardboard, it's pretty strong.  Gaps are filled with crumpled recycled paper, held together by duct-tape.  Then, it's paper-mached a few layers, and painted a bluish-white.

I had originally meant for my "Human" to be more realistically proportioned/shaped, but I was limited by my experience in this material, and by my (less than) one week time limit.  Since it began to look less human, I worked with that, and continued to try to make it look less human by painting a bluish-white.

"Human" can stand-up on its own, though I don't let it free-stand when I'm not there, because I'm afraid that it'll fall.

Overall, it was almost too big of a project to take on.