materiality experiment

The materialities that I mainly used for this project were metallic cellophane and foil/mirror papers as their reflective qualities are something I am appealed with and highly interested to work on.

The instructed feedback given by my tutor was that I needed to find a way to fractionalize or transform those cellophane and mirror papers into patterned fragments that would create more intriguingly complex light reflection perhaps. This would also show that there is some hand-making involved rather than just barely put there.

Experiments with mirror foil papers

Experiments with metallic cellophane papers

Besides, another idea that came up to mind was to create a liquified rainbow out of a mirror soaked in water. The challenge of this experiment was to position a perfect angle that could maximize the sunlight to create the clearest rainbow as possible, which mine, on the other hand, was very blurry, looking almost ‘chaotic’.

Rainbow experiments using mini mirrors and water