Graduation Thing Pt.1, Week 3: Construct's stuff

Another week, another workshop. This week we were taught about deconstruction and reconstruction. After a history lesson on the modernist and post-modernist, it seems as if there's no grey area between that 2 eras. One is completely made to have a neat and perfectly aligned design, the other one was a complete opposite of it, where fun and interesting is priority when designed.

With that, how does it connect it to those construct stuff? Deconstructing is when post-modernist designers came in, like a teenager wanting to express themselves with extreme measures where the sky's the limit. They are the start of a revolution where people tend to have a passion for design, real hot passion. But somehow all that passion can be a bit too much, words are overlapped, posters have more than 3 fonts, a whole mess. But without post-modernist, we could never have reconstruction. A reconciliation of the 2 eras, where both elements of designs are taken into consideration, and it was born.

Father + Mother = Baby

After the mind-blowing lecture, we moved into the workshop where we'll be creating our own mind-blowing statement with the theme in mind. From a blank canvas, we were told to throw whatever we had in mind without thinking too much about the subject, and the thing I had in mind was Bottled up.

And so I begin, I started folding a crane, and with each and every fold I'd write a word about the word in mind, simply thinking that how a person keeps things to themselves without thinking how it would affect them in the long run.

After I completed folding the crane, I start to cut the pieces of the paper as a symbol when people hurt themselves by removing the things that are bothering them, which seems as if they were removing part of themselves.

Pieces of paper cut out from the crane.

After cutting, I unfolded the paper to see how'd it looked like after all the folds, writings and cuts, as if like a release, a clear mind. Though there is some damage on the canvas, that's how we learn to get by, from experience.

After unfolding the crane, I looked at the fold lines of the paper, and think what if I could cut according to those fold lines and the words would be separated. And rearranging them might form a new word. But turns out it can be a bit hard, so I just lay it on the table to see what it has left to say.