Project 1
Project Statement I struggled with the idea of making a "surrealist object" at first. Many of my initial ideas were utility-oriented because I'm so used to making things to optimize efficiency, or weight, or time. So, I took a different approach. I decided I wanted three things out of this project: 1) to learn how to use Blender 2) play with size 3) play with juxtaposition. I selected the tiny cowboy hat because I didn't want to be tethered by something with an inherent purpose. I really love patterns and opposites, so I started thinking about the cowboy hat’s scale, children's toys, and how I could make an object to oppose those traits. I really liked the idea of making the tiny cowboy hat look big by comparison, so my idea was to create a wind-up toy child, and dress it in the oversized tiny cowboy hat and a toy's oversized clothing, to evoke the image of a kid playing dress-up with adult clothes. However, the more I looked at the cowboy hat, the more it fe