(Consume) Project & Documentation

Paper Blanket (Recycled)



This blanket project has been something I was puzzled for a while on how to do this along with what paper would be the best fit for the project. After going through my closet and finding multiple spiral bound books, I found one with pages that were all used in one of the books, so I grabbed that and used about 90 percent of the book to make the four sheets. After that, I took two sheets and glued them together to make a stronger panel.  I repeated that with the other two panels and now I had two panels that were more akin to construction paper.





Once home I did some patching up on some weakened spots, then applying the stuffing inside between the two layers with a hot glue gun. Slowly found out that Elmer’s glue just would not make foam stick, so I had to resort to the glue gun to make things stick extremely well. After all the foam and bubble wrap got placed down, sealed the two layers of paper together with a large amount of hot glue and brown paper. Pink foam sheets added to the end to give a more blanket like flow. All this comes together to make a project that could be mounted on a wall and be a reminder that in just one book used for college, there is enough paper in it to make a blanket. Just one book made it and make one think how much paper is on one campus alone. Makes you think about being a bit more consciences next time you by a book and think, do I really need this?   
            


After all of this work, I do wish I made the blanket a with more slack as after the work set in, it felt more like a giant over stuffed sandwich verses what people think of with a blanket. Flowing, flexible, and large are what come to mind, but this project had a main stiff body and only flowing ends. I accomplished what I wanted to tell in a visual medium, but I do not know if it will scream paper blanket. That is a personal complaint about the project, but the message is clear so it makes this a polarizing project. All I can do now is wait till Tuesday and see what the class says in the critique.

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