KAB130 Week 6 Task 1 final work Studio The Art of Materials

Final work: using the canvas wedges/keys and Lace in the effort to Transform/downcycle these 'useful' materials and combine them in such a way that their original purpose is impossible while maintaining the 'elements' of these materials. We want emphasis on lace as a fabric used in covering things for decoration and canvas wedges that hold structure. While highlighting these 'elements' of the objects used, it is showed in a way that can't be used for It's original purpose.

Lecture notes:

Downcycling: we’re just keeping them out of the waste stream.

Often what we refer to as recycling is downcycling

Handmade collage.

Readymade, materials with potential. Reinvents uses for waste.

Barbosa: Transform the object as little as possible don’t want to lose the previous meaning.

Form should be inherent to the materials speaks. A stones hardness, a wood’s grain.

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