The goal of this project was to learn more about abstraction, and practice how to get there. This was also an opportunity to learn how to use new materials and tools that can be used in the future. 

            This project started out with an activity to remember and write down random objects, emotions, senses, and interactions. Those were then all shuffled into a generator to create random sentences. The sentence that this project was based on was “When you blow on the spray bottle you feel disgust and uncertainty.” The next step was to make twenty or more sketches of what a disgusting and unusual spray bottle may look like. To do this, the shapes of a normal spray bottle were switched out for ones usually seen as disgusting, and the normal sizes of the parts of a spray bottle were completely switched around. To continue, twenty models made out of foam were made going off of the sketches. The goal here was to make the spray bottle look very abstract and create some uncertainty. Finally, once the models were all made and the pictures were taken, the spray bottle that portrayed the most disgusting feeling and uncertainty was chosen.

This is me and Lily's project and were had to make a spray bottle with disgust. With this, we didn't know how to have a spray bottle make you feel disgusted. We thought about the texture and we also thought about the touch and the smell. We decided to go with sight. We thought we could make the bottle make you feel disgusted by the size of the different shapes. 

            The goal was to take a sentence and create an object that somehow represents the task in the sentence. In this case, the sentence was a "saw that makes you remember joy."  

            The first step was to start out by choosing an image and corresponding the image choices with other people to find partners. The second step was sketching ideas for what the object could/might look like. After cutting shapes out of foam they were pinned together in different ways and photographed to experiment with a variety of forms. After that was done the final model was chosen out of the array of photos. 

"An object that makes you look angry when you hear it". That is the Ragio, a specialized radio that you can adjust your political leaning on so that it tunes to the hottest of takes from people whose opinions are wrong (according to you, the user). All it will do is infuriate you, and honestly, isn't a good bit of unbridled hatred all any of us want?

All the models were made out of foam, with some featuring toothpicks, pins, wires, and that one weird one with all the pipe cleaners. The final model we chose was intended to resemble a vintage radio (because everything anyone said before you came along was wrong) with imagery of an angry face with the antenna. The three dials would be used to set your political leaning and preferences, were this to be a functioning object.