The time I spent on this class is far more unique than my other classes. Since I'm not an art major, crafting for a class is something new. As of now, all my classes are typically base upon the simple read and discuss or learn and do the assignment. These courses never forces me to be physically crafty or never offered me a apportunity to impliment my mental and physical time on a project or assignment. This course does have similarity to other class as well, like its base, but each collegic course require that similar base to function as a college course.
My project was time consuming from the physical prespective, making each and every individual peice had a meaning. Though this is not the first of its kind that I've made, it still posses the same unique feel to it. The piece, thought to others may not be so metaphorical, represent an emotional aspect of my life. In the first installations of papers swords, each and every individual piece was constructed from a piece of paper that I had focus on at one point or another. For example, I have pieces that consist of old homework assignment, poems, drawings and other personal documents. In this new new craft, I try to construct each piece with new and stronger paper, to symbolize the beginning of soemthing new, but for some reason i could not completely craft allthe peices with a new sheet. In my mind, it felt as if a sign of not letting go of a specific event or emotion.
In this craft project, I learn that inorder for something to posses a true meaning, if it has one, the craft itself must be created with a purpose and a motive, whether to relieve stress, to waste time, or to basially to just do it. I was assured through this project that, even though this piece have metaphorical and deep thought from my perspecitve, other may see this piece as a ordinary origami. I have not seen anybody that attempted this specific art, but I've seen people attempt to use this type of technique, The idea of combining multiples of one item to form a bigger object. But even with their dragon, who was compose of tiny triangles, as I remember, there was no emotion or meaning for one individual piece. I'm trying to say that, in their art, each piece alone cannot function as anything meaning or even visually understand to the viewer. In my project, like the dragon origami, each piece look alike, but in my paper weapons each piece can stand alone, both visually and mental.