Reflection on my Creative Response Component
In the initial model of my creative display, the half-outlines of trees were meant to be carved out of single sheets of cardboard. I wanted them to have some height, at least 3-4′, so that they made a human-sized statement when viewed.
After some initial scavenging, it appears that there is currently a shortage of large, rectangular pieces of cardboard being recycled. In response to this, I plan to find as many large pieces as I can, piece them together into rectangles, and then add bracing rectangles to one or both sides to ensure that the whole mass stands upright on its supports.
This realization connects to the BBC article – Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure – in the following way: Andrew Stanton advises “be wrong as fast as [you] can”. There is no possible way to be wrong before the beginning of the actual art-making, so in respect to this idea I have certainly “succeeded” in my failure.
I believe that this setback has the potential to underscore my point – of forgetting about materials after we have used them – even more strongly than if the tree-outlines were composed of whole sheets of cardboard. These rag-tag pieces very obviously tell that they have been discarded. In this way, they simplify the story-telling of the sculpture.