This was from my first art class in college. I don't really remember what the assignment was, but I think we were supposed to make something look like something else. Basically I used a lot of clear plastic waterbottles and tried to make it look like broken glass by using the glow of candlelight. I collected clear water bottles, stripped them of their labels and then scattered them on top of small candles that had a wire dome over it so the bottles wouldn't burn. When I first performed this in the classroom, the effect was exactly what I wanted. The room was small and had white walls so that the flickering of the light and movement of the shadows really appeared like a chandelier that had just fallen. In the video above, I couldn't capture what I wanted. It is too static.
This is what it is like without the lights turned off.
The process.
First I collected water bottles in the dorm.
Then I got my floormates to help me tear off the labels and scrub at that sticky stuff that lingers on the bottle. Surprisingly, I got a lot of volunteers.
Finally, nice and clean.
Then I crushed the bottles. And then I remember that my original idea was to make a hanging chandelier, but it wasn't working out too well. On the last day before the project was due, I stayed out because it was Halloween night. I returned at 3am and I still didn't know what I was going to do. In the early hours of the morning, somehow I came up with this idea. It's funny how easily sometimes ideas come to you. But then again, I know that it doesn't happen all the time.
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