The Success Criteria for this task was to obtain, and create a sustainable, collage tray made from scraps, fabric and a cardboard tray. Our focus was to recycle items we no longer need and make it into something useful.
How Did I Make This?
The process is quite simple, all you need is: Bundles of scrap fabric, a cardboard tray, glue (preferably homemade glue, made of flour and water), and PVA glue. The thorough steps are to pick out your fabrics, smother them in the glue made of flour and water (make sure to cover all of it, but don't be too sloppy with it, if you use too much glue it can become messy and reduce the chances of making a complete tray with no gray areas), and begin with the corners of the tray. The corners are most important in this case, and make sure to try and get the fabric to cover the sides until it reaches the edge of the bottom. It's a requirement to complete the corners first, because if you begin with the sides and the flooring, it can become confusing and it will end in disaster.
Tray Concepts
During the making of these trays, we were told "not to follow a specific theme", but if you wish to find fabrics with a theme, it will come out more quality and not so messy. In the beginning, I intended to go flowery themed, but I decided to change it up and just stick fabrics together, since our entire class had to use the same fabrics which made it difficult to obtain flowery fabrics.
Following Emotions
I found an interest to the art in general, the concept and art setup was intriguing. The difficulties came in sharing the fabric around, as there was a limited amount of fabrics and many of the aesthetic fabrics were long gone quite quickly. I think I could work on working with a better aesthetic, my tray looked all over the place and I could improve the quality.
