My object was a shoe. I had a hard time at first figuring out what material I was going to use. I thought about cardboard or foam but I didn't know where I would find that much foam and I thought the cardboard would be difficult to shape the shoe. I finally decided on using bottle for many reasons. One, they are easy found objects, two, the shape of the bottles would make the shoe look round, and three, the bottles are easy to manipulate and stack on eachother.
When I started to construct the shoe, I made the first layer of bottle linked inside eachother so the structure would be more stable. For the laces, I made them out of the labels I took off the bottles. I took off all the labels because i didn't want the variety of drink labels to take away from the shoe. If I thought about this idea sooner, I would have saved all the labels and somehow made the laces look more round because right now I feel like they lay completely flat on the shoe and people could be unsure as to what it's supposed to be.
For the presentation of the project, I was unsure of where to put the shoe. I could have placed it on the ground but I thought that it would have been too low. I left it on the table because that is where I built the object. Also, the table is not clean, it has paint and glue on it but I felt it represented a street because the road is never clean.
Looking at my project, I could have payed attention to detail a little more but I feel I achieved the objective of "representing" the object. I was surprised how strong the structure was with only using bottles and hot glue. Overall, I'm happy with the way my shoe turned out.
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