Materials For The Head

Talking with Tiago recently the thought of what to do about the head came to subject. I had originally intended on making some sort of plastic mold to go over the top but wasn't really sure how to go about it. Talking to Tiago gave me a lot of ideas and I decided I would make the head out of material.

The material I went for is this polar fleece sort. I remembered playing with it back in first year for the materials paper and how you could create all sorts of surfaces just by applying different techniques so I had a bit of experiment:

All experiments:

Soaked and Burnt:

Layered Melting:

Folded and Slightly heated

Hardcore Burning:

My favourite two out of these is the soaked and burnt one (sbo) and the folded and slightly heated (fsh). The sbo one I could see as a potential use for the leaves of the plant. the fsh one I think is the winner for the head. The folds are quite representative of a flower and the many layers that are within one, especially with petals.