As you may know I study Art and Design L2 at college, and for this project we had to Up-cycle. If you don't know what that is it's basically turning something worth nothing into something worth a lot of money etc. Personally I really enjoy stuff like this, it's always good to fix things instead of throwing them away.
The only problem with me is I'm really bad at coming up with ideas, but I knew I wanted to do something fashion based because that's where I want to go in the future. I always liked the runway type style because it's so different and weird. I did some research on runway fashion and saw so many different head cages, I thought they looked amazing. the way they can fit right on your face or just balancing on your neck. I got quite a lot of inspiration from this and decided to draw up some ideas etc.



There was a lot to consider though, what was I going to make it out of? is it going to be safe? how will it sit? how will it go on? etc etc I decided to use two hanging baskets that were all rusty and horrible. I had to pick the paint off and stand it all down till it was smooth. Next I painted them white and attached them together leaving two open so your head could get in. and I had to cut out a hole so it would rest on your neck. but from that the ends were unsafe. They would stick into the models neck. I found some polystyrene balls and hot glued them on so they were safe. this made it comfortable on the neck/shoulders. After this I went and picked some sticks and twigs and painted them white and hot glued them on. While I was doing this I noticed the hot glue made cob-web type leftovers from when you move the glue gun. I stuck with this and put it all around. and made the sticks a lot more bulky. And I'd finished. I was so pleased with the outcome, considering we only had a week it wasn't as good as I could of made it with the painting and stuff but for the time limit I wasn't bothered.
I find it fascinating that you can produce something like this from two simple objects. I guess that's why I took the course.
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