Evaluation

During 'Simulating experience' I feel like I portrayed my idea well. 


As a child, I was the child that always made dens, would eat anything (edible or not) and was obsessed with willy wonka!... I even once threw my dinner at the wall to see if I could have lickable wallpaper, but my mum was not impressed in the slightest!


The installation was to give the simulation of my childhood, my happiness and memories. 
Now that I have finished my installation and I have had time to reflect on it I have had so many new ideas of how to expand and improve my idea in a was that would help portray the idea more. Because although I needed the strong, well made structure to be weight bearing for the beaded sweetie door curtains... when you were a child did you used to make a strong structure out of wood, screws and brackets?! I used to drape my duvet between my mums chair and the family sofa and play under that! So if i had more time to develop the idea I would try to do something like that because i feel like it really would communicate better. 

Oh no...

The last thing goes wrong! 

My experiments for the lickable wallpaper were sometimes successful and sometimes not. 

Because the citrus lickable wallpaper was to be made with freshly squeezed fruit juice it required to be made the night before hand in, so it is fresh for marking... so that required to get it right within 2 attempts. 

I did it in 2 ways. 1st using gelatine to solidify the juice into a paste, and 2nd use liquid glucose to turn it into a syrupy paste. 

Sadly, both attempts failed. as the gelatine required to be put into the fridge to solidify, it became too solid to paste on. and the other only turns into a paste when it is very thinly painted on to the surfaces and left to dry for 5 mins, but during this period it soaked into the paper and leaked underneath the stencil I made. therefore I had a smudgy wallpaper that tasted like paper, not citrus flavours.

It's all coming together nicely!

This posts shows the final stages of putting my installation up. I feel like it has been a big success so far, because everything has all gone to plan for my dandelions, sweetie beaded door curtains, nests and mushrooms.. lets hope the last few stages do so too!

Structure

This is my structure I made for my tent like structure, I used wood inside the sides of the fabric so they were strong enough to bare the weight of the sweetie door curtains. 

final ivy leaves

This posts shows the final stages of adding my ivy leaves onto the inside of my structure. 

I think they look very effective as they are not uniform, they look similar to as they would if they were real. 

Soldiering on!

It was much harder and time consuming than I initially thought to sit and use writing icing to draw on the veins on the leaves... but it was worth it, because they look effectively brilliant and they taste lovely!

lollipop dandelions

For my lollipop dandelions I used 12mm dowel and 10cm polystyrene balls, I also made a base for them to stand in of MDF, then painted. 

With one of the dandelions I pierced the polystyrene several times to make a very full one, then with the other one I only stuck a few lollipops in then scattered some on the floor so it looked like it had been blown.