Strung Out

Today in class we were told to string up the room. My initial reaction was "what the hell is this about?" However, it turned out to be really interesting. Everyone set forth tying their strings to different anchor points and moving around the room. I started with a chair on top of a table and moved around the room, walking on tables, crawling under them, all the while trying not to get tangled up myself within the insane string web. It was fun, but once everyone got around the room, movement became a huge problem. In the end I got trapped by string -- I couldn't leave the hole that I'd dug myself into.

The end result came out to be really interesting though. Most of the string was white, but there were a few spools that were hot pink. The contrast of the hot pink against the white string made certain areas of the room really interesting, and wherever the hot pink is, it seems like people gravitated towards that spot to wrap things up. Laure made an interesting series of lines from a stool on the table to a monitor and it ended up looking as though the lines were radiating out from the computer.

I would never compare this to a spider web though -- it's far too unorganized. If I were to do this again, I'd probably contain myself a bit more and try to work on a specific design, simply because I think that would have created an even more interesting environment. Emilia created a Picasso-looking man on the floor out of her string -- the possibilities really were endless. As well, I would have anchored things to more stationary objects, like the tables. When the I was moving away from my first anchor point, since the stool really had no considerable mass to it, it gave my string considerable slack. Instead, I really wanted something with a lot of tension so that I could create straight lines instead of ones that looked like limp droopy noodles.