Object 2: Modular
For this week's Softness assignment, the theme was modularity. After tossing several ideas around, I decided to construct a modular sculpture out of dominoes interconnected with hinges. The idea was that the dominoes could be manipulated in various ways to make different sculptural shapes, with one option being a cigar-box shape. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find wooden dominoes anywhere, and the small hinges I needed were too expensive to buy dozens of... So, as plan b, I used Jenga game pieces and packing tape hinges.
The results weren't what I had in mind in an aesthetic sense, and only marginally what I'd envisioned in a functional sense, since the "hinges" weren't stiff enough to enable free-standing forms. Nonetheless, the object serves as a basic proof on concept that I might explore at some point in the future.
