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"Green City, Open City, Living City"
Installation for the UK Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010 by Troika

Did it Fall From a Tree?

This week I hope to make a mould of a conker and it's shell so that I can cast some concrete conkers. I want to create a natural form out of something normally found in Urban areas.

Felting It!

First I covered a small ball with thin layers of wool. Each coloured layer completely covered the colour that went before, this meant that the different coloured wools were visable when cut open.

I then used hot soapy water to soak the woolen ball, whilst using my hands to felt the ball. I continued for 20minutes until I was happy with the shape.

Felt ball before being cut.

After being cut. (Coloured layers are visable)

My finished Conker Shells! I also added some felted spikes to resemble the exterior texture of the conker.

I hope to make some more so that I can hang a series of them together, or I would also like to make a maquete of the city and place some conkers on pedestrianised streets, Life size conkers!?

The Conker

This week I am workin with conkers. I have drawn some from observations with a variety of media. At the moment I am recreating them using felt. I hope to create a bunch of them in all sorts of colours and sizes and experiment in creating the spiky surface of the shell:)

 

These felted balls reminded me of the shape and colour of conkers.

These are some felted images that I found interesting.

The image below of conkers suspended on some rope inspired me to make a series of felted conkers in which i could hang fron some rope also.