My Utopia

After planning and filling up the little passport book with ideas for what we want our Utopia to look like I came up with the best Utopia ever...okay i lied it didn't turn out how i wanted it to. It looked completely different from how i imagined it... To be honest it was pretty basic but i guess my inferred meaning about it made it less basic and more interesting as I explained the message I wanted to get across.

So as you saw from my previous post you could see some of my sketched up ideas that I wanted to create. I ended up going for the pyramid idea. I had all of the equipment to pull this task off and it really took longer than expected.

To make things easier for myself on that day, the previous night i had made a pyramid net and tried to make prototype pyramids. Thankfully the first set of pyramids I had made came out perfect, all the points met at the tip of the pyramid. However 4-5 pyramids later they began to look very bad, as in the points were not touching at the top or the square at the base was too big making it harder.

If i've learnt anything from making these pyramids is that never throw away anything you made because it could end up helping you as you journey through the project. Due to my first judgment by eye I thought that it did not look right, but I wanted to try and fold it just to see if it might just work so I used my photocopier to scan and print the net, turns out it was even better than my first pyramid.

When it came to Friday i thought everything will go to plan, i brought in the pyramids that i had made the night before made the net so i could photocopy more pyramid nets in class. I brought the thin thread to connect all of the pyramids together. The initial plan was to hang them off the table so they would look like they are levitating by themselves. But I was suggested to try make the pyramids at a larger scale to show variation.

It consumed even more time to make more pyramids especially at a larger scale from a A1 piece of paper, there were no scanners that could scan A1 pieces of paper so i had to draw them by hand, again due to time running out I did not have enough time to decorate, hang them off the table or the ceiling because it was too high for me to reach so i had to just make do with what i had and improvise and I ended the day with this.

I had more time i could've elaborated on this and made it more interesting by creating more of these and connecting the with the thread to make a floating empire of pyramids.