The installation I have been working on was finally unveiled on the 14th June at the Bargehouse as part of the Made In Brunel design show. This show reveals the freshest design talent from the top Design University in the UK. The entrance hall of the Bargehouse has a high ceiling with plain walls and the space can look large and empty, I was asked to create and installation to combat this problem. I decided to create a hanging origami feature that fitting in with the Brunel brand guidelines.
The Process
Folding over 2000 pieces of paper was not something I could do alone and needed the help of people from other teams within Made In Brunel. Without the help of Sophie Randles, George Williamson and Mitch Gebbie from the Events team, the Made In Brunel Directors, Ben King and Emily Riggs, Neethu (my partner) and I could not of created this installation. Even once the paper was folded, threading the carefully folded paper onto the practically invisible fishing wire was a colossal task. This task took Neethu and I a couple of days, only to be sped up by the help of Sophie Randles and Ben King, whilst watching the Queens Jubilee to keep the boredom of such a repetitive task at bay. To hang the paper I built three white boxes to be hung from hooks in the Bargehouse ceiling.
Creating the shape
After spending some time discussing what the shape of the paper should be in to create the best swarm effect with Sam Whyman we decided on an eye shape that tapered more to the right, if being looked at from the front. The exact shape could only be finalised whist being created in the jig (pictured above). The hanging paper was used as pixels to create the shape desired. By sliding the paper up and down the wire and changng the number of folded paper on each wire the shape could be controlled and created.
Keeping tension
Weighting the wires down were M8 nuts, these nuts created a blanket effect that were all the same height. As the installation is designed to be walked under it was very important to get all the nuts hanging from the same height. The jig I built to work on the installation without having to hang it allowed me to get the correct height accurately.
Installing the installation
Having the installation sponsored by Nifty Lift allowed the use of a scissor lift to install it safely and efficiently. Brunel technicians, Paul Josse and Paul Barrett did an excellent job putting it up on the scissor lift which I am very grateful for.
The tangles
Once up I did suffer a couple of tangles, mainly on the middle one due to removing the packaging before we should of, causing extreme tangles. Thanks to Emily Riggs, Neethu Mathew and Paul Barrett for helping me out untangling the wires.
The final thing
The general consensus was that everyone seemed to really like it, and just standing around by it people would ask questions and want to know more and how it was made. I spoke to Dev from rAndom International (The top guys in the Installation design world) about the installation and he seemed to like it, "The orange was great! Nice work =D".
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