{"id":10813,"date":"2020-05-06T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/?post_type=student-work&p=10813"},"modified":"2020-05-06T00:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:10:17","slug":"skye-wilson-2","status":"publish","type":"student-work","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/student-work\/skye-wilson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Skye Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my Material Matters project, I chose to remake the book Milk and Honey using only wire. Making Milk and Honey out of wire changed the meaning of my object quite a bit. The main purpose of a book is to read it, making it out of wire takes away the ability to do so. It basically made the object go from something you use to something you observe. My favorite part about making this book was weaving the whole thing together. Although it was beyond time-consuming, there was something about it I almost found relaxing. The only challenge that I ran into while working with wire, is after a while, no matter how thin your wire is, it starts to really hurt your fingers. I overcame this, however, by using different tools as my fingers. I was initially winding the wire together with my bare hands until I decided to try winding it with a power drill. I also used a pair of pliers to weave and bend the wire as much as I could. If I were to do this all over again I would figure out how to weave the wire even tighter and closer together making the book completely solid, as well as add more pages. A project I saw that really inspired me was Charlotte\u2019s plush watch. I just loved seeing how different it turned out compared to her original watch. I want to make pillows inspired by all my favorite objects now.<\/p>\n\n\t\t