Texture is Life

Texture Exercise

3D texture.001.

3D texture.002.

3D texture.003.

3D texture.004.

3D texture.005.

For this exercise, you will create 4 texture samples from cardboard based on your own photos. 

Directions:

1. tkae your camera and walk around the building, inside and outside. take 8 photos of textures. Get your camera up close, and look for shots where the light accentuates the textures. Look for natural and human-made textures. Bring your phone  back to class

2. Look at your pictures and find some that might translate to the cardboard well. Describe them, are they organic? Patterned? Rough? Flowing? Pick 4 with different characteristics.

3. Create four 8 inch squares of cardboard (Measure!) and approximate the textures on the squares. You can add material or cut the textures into the square, but the textures should be made out of the cardboard (You can use glue, but no hot glue snot textures!)

4. We will hang these in class and make a key with your descriptive terms. This will be the class texture bank for this project.

Remember, paper/cardboard can be:

Cut, bent, glued, rolled, laminated, scraped, shredded, folded, scored, torn, woven, layered, crumpled, perforated, twisted, stacked, or embossed. Reach for new techniques to give life to the surface of the cardboard!

Some examples.

Texture2_chiajuhsu_2017 fall.

Kwasacz Texture 5.

Ypatt texture1[1].

Student relief 1.

Student relief 4.

 

Studnet relief 3.

 
Richard Serra, “Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself”
[1967-1968]

    to roll
to crease
to fold
to store
to bend
to shorten
to twist
to dapple
to crumple
to shave
to tear
to chip
to split
to cut
to sever
to drop
to remove
to simplify
to differ
to disarrange
to open
to mix
to splash
to knot
to spill
to droop
to flow		   to curve
to lift
to inlay
to impress
to fire
to flood
to smear
to rotate
to swirl
to support
to hook
to suspend
to spread
to hang
to collect
of tension
of gravity
of entropy
of nature
of grouping
of layering
of felting
to grasp
to tighten
to bundle
to heap
to gather		   to scatter
to arrange
to repair
to discard
to pair
to distribute
to surfeit
to compliment
to enclose
to surround
to encircle
to hole
to cover
to wrap
to dig
to tie
to bind
to weave
to join
to match
to laminate
to bond
to hinge
to mark
to expand
to dilute
to light		   to modulate
to distill
of waves
of electromagnetic
of inertia
of ionization
of polarization
of refraction
of tides
of reflection
of equilibrium
of symmetry
of friction
to stretch
to bounce
to erase
to spray
to systematize
to refer
to force
of mapping
of location
of context
of time
of cabonization
to continue