The Giant Object By Sarah May

I have never been so frustrated as I was with any other project then this one. Initially writing out the dimensions I realized this was going to be difficult. The final measurement came out to 6'7" x 3'3" x 3'3", so this was going to be gigantic cinderblock. My first idea was to make a cardboard structure of the cinderblock out of cardboard, wrap it in chicken wire, then paper mache it with paper towels. When I first started most of my time was spent on the cardboard structure. I over-estimated how strong the cardboard I used was. It was constantly falling in on itself, and when i got one side to finally stand on its own the other would fall. After I finished it i started putting the paper towels. However, the paper mache glue was too watery and it cause the cardboard to get mushy and sag down. So to fix that I pointed my hair dryer at the wet spots and then took off the rest of the wet paper towels. I then stabilized the structure and placed it standing up on its end. I then decided to wrap the thing entirely in toilet paper. I again made it harder on myself because wrapping the toilet paper was so frustrating because it would keep breaking. After it was all covered I was given an idea of texture and decided to use the glue I made and add ink to it, then I would splatter it against the object. I added as many layer as I could, I wish I was able to do more to cover some more of the white. In the end it think it came out really well.