# data[].attributes.body
Everything is looking pretty good already all the things that are left to do tomorrow are adding the corals, putting the air humidifier in place and taking all the white light out of the room to the storage space. I brought more trash to completely fill in the white spaces on the wall and after finishing this I just had to organize all the materials to got everything out of the room and cleaning the floor to place the fabric scraps. The floor is full of this fabric so the chances appearing the real floor are small. But if it happens it shouldn't be a problem because it just looks like an under the sea rock underneath all the sand and seaweed. After everything were in place I added the sea urchins. I was thinking of putting this trapped in the fishing nets, but they are way too big, and they stole attention from the little fishes. I was worried that they would disappear in the middle of everything was going on in the room, but they are so big, and also the white color of the paper reflects a lot of light, and it makes them pop out. So I found the best option were to put them in the corners of the room: I added some on the floor near the fishing net, and some on the ceiling near the trash from the walls.

# data[].attributes.body
I had my boyfriend helping me to cover all the spaces there were left to cover on the walls and also to organise all the materials that were bothering me to walk around the room. I added some fishes made of milk boxes into the fishing nets, and also two other floating as it they were swimming.

# data[].attributes.body
The last thing I did were thinking of how to cover the floor. I could leave it as it is but the walls have texture, the ceiling also have texture and the floor as it is doesn't feel right. I had lots of fabric scraps left so I tried throwing some on the floor to simulate seaweed. It didn't really look like seaweed, but I went well with the walls, and the color is a really dark blue so ir drove attention to the rest of the things in the room too. Tomorrow when I finish every other thing that is left to do I'm cleaning the floor and throwing all the fabric scraps in there.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I installed the jellyfishes and tested with te blue lights. The jellyfishes are made of small leds that need a power source that can’t be as high as the regular lamps. Since I don’t understand much about electricity I had my uncle helping me with this part also.

# data[].attributes.body
After that I Decided to change the wall with the fishing net. I had two girls helping me to take out the nets that were already there and to help me placing the wall covering. I decided also to leave some space on the wall to hang the ecobags for sale. The fishing nets that were spare I cover the entire column in the center of the room, it were already painted in black so all I did was ask some one to wold it in place while I fixed it with the wall stapler.

# data[].attributes.body
In the first day I had my uncle helping me and also my assistant from PRE foundation. It was good having both of them to hold the wall covering and positioning it in the right place while I look from afar to make  sure it looked right. My uncle helped me screwing the walls but I found out it was easier to use the wall stapler to fix the coverings onto the wall. It only worked because the walls are made of drywall.
I didn’t want the room to have sharp corners, so to make sure the coverings would make a round shape in the corners I added a piece of wire on the top part of the wall covering, and it held it in place. In the end the room had no sharp edges.

# data[].attributes.body
I planned on making 12 heights of covering to make sure I would have enough for all walls, but when we finished installing it there were only 10 and a big part of the wall that was not covered. So I decided to cover the rest of the wall in fishing nets but the wall were imperfect and I hadn’t painted it because I was expecting to cover it completely, but with the  fishing net I could cover 100% per cent. I used them a piece of black fabric there were in ebac that was free to use and put the net on top of it, and it made it look better. I think using fabric to cover thewalls  instead of paint is a good idea because it’s not as messy and it’s also faster. In the end of the day when I got home I found two other coverings that I forgot to bring to ebac which means that I could covers all walls with That if I wanted to.

# data[].attributes.body
I readjusted the website of the Brand and found out about some nice features that made things quicker. There are boxes that changes automatically  when the mouse passes on it. Also I updated the instagram account to promote the exhibition:

https://thanksplants.wixsite.com/project
https://www.instagram.com/thanks_plants_/

# data[].attributes.body
I made a list of everything I need to remember to bring to the mounting day, so I have tomorrow to look for the stuff that are still missing. I also did a plan on how the mounting is gonna be. My plan is to start with the walls cause I'll have help for putting the screws into the wall and fix the coverings in place, and then moving on to all the electric part (including lights, jellyfishes and extensions to the air humidifier). I don't know how to work with electricity so I'll have my uncle helping me with this part.

# data[].attributes.body
In the printing for the box set I did a Turtle draped on a fishing net, but I figured it would be such a negative message to put on a bag, and I decided to print just the turtle without the fishing net, to be very minimalist and not bring any negative connotation with it. This way it's also easier to print since it's only one color.
The wood piece my tutor borrowed me didn't work cause its too small for the bag and the print, so Marcelo (the technician) cut two pieces of wood in the size of the bags and putted the glue that is usually used on the printing table. Even thought it's more work than just buying a bigger bag, it's nice to know that if I want to work with materials in different sizes it's still possible.
I printed 30 bags and after finishing it all I had to do was to blow dry them. The process was really quick cause I had the help of the technician, If I were to make everything bu my self it would take at least twice the time.

# data[].attributes.body
I started making a flat coral out of draft paper to look like this. But the coral has a case that is so hard to simulate that it ended up not working.

# data[].attributes.body
I started by cutting the shape of the top part that is just flat, and then making small paper tubes to put underneath but I couldn't hold the shape so I just decided not to use it. I could probably make this corar just with the paper tubes and alining the top part to look flat from above, but it would take too much more time then I have so I can try this in the future as a progression opportunity for this project.

# data[].attributes.body
This reflection is being written on 22nd of may

This weekend I started to feel so overwhelmed by this project. I choose to make something at the exhibition that requires a lot of manual work , and a lot of doing the same thing over and over again, and I started thinking that this would never finish. I had this idea of covering all the walls with garbage an sI did already 11 of these coverings and there is still one to go. I felt unmotivated because it's been a while since I only have to have this done without having to think and have new ideas. I think I'm not the best person to make a lot of the same thing because I get really tired very easily, so I left the other one to finish some other day and I worked a little bit more on the corals. I found some used Nespresso Caps, and I joined them, to make a coral that looked like this:

# data[].attributes.body
During the project I really likes working on the Sea Urchins, on the Jelly fishes and also the Corals, so I think I'm more into making small detailed things by hand and not so much huge creations that needs a lot of time and not so much attention to details. I should remember this to the next projects that I decide to do. Maybe I didn't know that because I never had to work constantly in the same project for so long before, and as it's the first really long project I'm ever doing I decided to go big and do something that I wouldn't be able to do on my own without the help of my tutors and of the structure of the school.
Spending Monday with the making of the ecobags really helped me to clear my ming and "get back to the game".

# data[].attributes.body
I went to Brás to buy Ecobags, so I can print my pattern in it and sell in the exhibition. All the bags I found to buy in the size I wanted costed between 8 and 10 reais, so I bought a 30 bags for 8 reais each. The only problem is that The bags didn't fit in the screen printing table., they would have to be bigger, but I couldn't switch, so my tutor said she was borrowing me the pieces of wood she uses to print in fabric without using the tables, and using a system that is similar to printing in paper. Thats why I had to delay the printing for next week.
Next time I want to print in bags I have to remember to make sure the size will be as big as the table I'm using to print.

# data[].attributes.body
I worked on the corals and found two new ways to make to from garbage. One of them is make of bottle caps: I sorted all the caps of the bottles I was using and glued them to a plastic mould that was actually a cake packaging that someone though away. The result was very similar to this coral: Except for the color which won't really matter since the light will be blue and the only difference people will be able to tell is the tones and not the hue. Its nice cause the caps I sorted have different sizes cause they belongs to different types of bottles, and as the images show this coral also have circular parts with different sizes.

# data[].attributes.body
My interpretation of this coral is more similar to the one on the right of the picture, cause I used caps that are shorter and the also are placed right next to each other. I found that the best gluing option when it comes to plastic is using the hot glue. The plastic melts a little with the heat and when it dries it gets hard and fix  well to itself or to other plastics.

# data[].attributes.body
I also did an interpretation of this coral using foam nets that are used to pack fruits and vegetables.

# data[].attributes.body
All I did was to cut the foam into a circular shape and tight the bottom using a white string. The shape also remembers a sea shell, and it's good cause it's still related to the sea. Now I just have to come up with a way of maintaining this straight up. I could use a box as base or maybe a piece of wire I found. Next week I'n going to spend more time thinking of the base of all the coral reef I'm creating.

# data[].attributes.body
I had to reserve a time to make the prints for the box set, and I thought since I have to do this anyway I should at leat make something that is related to my project. For that reason I made a screen with the drawing of a sea turtle. I started the day by preparing my screen to print and I also created a new color by mixing the paints there already were in the print room. But I started having a problem in the printing process:  the paint started to stain the paper in the wrong place because of a small whole in my screen. It's time for me to buy a new screen.
I was meaning to leave the turtle as it is as minimalist as possible, but Marcelo and Monique thought it was too simple and I should make at leats a background. So I spent the rest of the day doing the rubi film with this net pattern with the intention to show how sad it is to have this amazing creature captured by accident in fishing nets that most of the times are just garbage from fishing mens. The next day I printed the second color and had the sabe problem of the other screen with the whole on it. this time thought it was faster because the whole were outside the area of the paper so I just had to stick one tape on it.
Since I already have the screen ready I thought it would be a nice idea to make ecobags with a print of the turtle, to sell at the exhibition and encourage people to use reusable bags instead of plastic bags.

# data[].attributes.body
This weekend I started working on the corals and I found a material that is perfect to create one type of coral which is the stir foam made of corn in the shape of Cheetos. Joining them in a row and then making shapes of branches made it look like this:

# data[].attributes.body
I used a pot as a base to make the structure more resistant, if I were to make it bust using the foam without any structure it would break because the material is very fragile.

# data[].attributes.body
In the end of this two days I had a total of 7 covers ready. I still have 5 to go do in the end I’ll have 12 covers. Its taking so much less time then I was expecting to do all these wall coverings, and Its will probably leave me enough time to think more about the lightings and also the jellyfishes.

# data[].attributes.body
I received the location for my installation in the exhibition and I got the exact space I was aiming for. It will be great because there are already the structures on the ceiling to install all the lightings and also to hang the jelly fishes and fishing net, it has an air conditioner, enough power plugs to everything I need to connect, and also it's gonna be easy to make the room dark and block any lights from outside because it's already closed. The only difficult part will be dealing with the column in the middle of the room, but I can take advantage of that and make it into a sort of pathway divider, so the audience don't just look and the work, but also feel encourage to walk around to the other side of the room.
I believe my proposal was really effective, cause it got me the space I wanted.
I did a brief action plan just to work as a guide line of everything I have to get done by 28th of May. It will probably change though, depending on what days I have the car available to go buying materials, and doing things faster or slower that I anticipated.

# data[].attributes.body
I continue the covering. I started yesterday using the same method of joining all the materials I have collected including paper plastic bottles bags cardboxes abd fabric scraps and doing small stitches, and it worked perfectly. It was way faster then the other way and also easier. I could finish the one I started yesterday and start a new one. I did the maths and I will have to have 10 hights is this fabric to cover all the walls in the room. So I’ll need proximally 10 days of work dedicated to that. Tomorrow I'm making an action plan to guide me through all the things I have to get done by the day of installing the work.

To make things faster I'm looking for materials that are bigger and cover more space. Also I'm using the stapler to fix some of the trash when possible, and making small stitches when needed. These materials look just like someone trow their trash on to the surface, but under the blue lights it looks stunning. I did a test with an improvised lantern cover with blue plastic, but this week on Wednesday or Thursday I'm getting a real blue led light to test.

# data[].attributes.body
In two hours of work today I could make only one meter by 30 centimetres of covering with the fabric scraps. My gramma tried to help me and she could do the same amount in half an hour because she has more experience with sewing than me. So I had to think of another way of covering the walls because none of them seemed to work until now. I thought of sewing the fabrics with sewing machine, hand sewing it onto another base, stapling, gluing it with several types of glue and its been so had to find one that would work and look good, but wouldn't take too long to build. So I realised that it wouldn't work and I wouldn't have time to do all the walls. One option would be to do it just for part of the room and cover the rest another way, but it would devalue the work. So looking at all the materials I have the majority are food packagings and general house waste, the amount of fabric I have in relation to the rest is not so big, so I tried joining all the things: Plastics, boxes, fabric and bottles. It worked really well, because the amount of stitching I had to do was really smaller, to fix the bottles I used thread that is really easy to work, the fabrics looked like sea weed in the composition and the overall look was good. I'll carry on this for the next week and hopefully won't take more then 7 days to finish it.

# data[].attributes.body
I'm in a stage of the project where there is not need of too much thinking but a lot of making. I listed all the things I have to have ready before the day of the installing of the exhibition. The things that will take more time is the making of the walls and sea urchins. I spent the whole day doing spikes and building Sea Urchins today. It takes more or less 1 hour and 15 minutes top build each one, which means that in one day I can make about 4 of them. In the beginning of the day we had a moment to list all the materials I need to buy and I used that also to list what I have to prepare, so I had time to make 2 sea urchins today.

# data[].attributes.body
The stapling method also didn’t work. Doing it in a smaller scale worked and looked good, but as the fabric started to grow it became difficult to do it and the result was not as pretty as it should be. I had again to think of another solution and I found a material that is used to make bathroom carpets, and it’s lake a small braided net fabric. I can use this as a base and pass the points of the fabric scraps through the loops of the net this way I won’t  have to see or use any sticking method other then just braiding. It seems to be a good alternative and to be faster then seeing was planed.

# data[].attributes.body
The initial idea was to sew all the fabric scraps together and make a covering for the room. But I haven't consider the time it takes to sew it. I started doing it today and I spent 2 hours sew, in the end I got just a small piece of 0,5 sq m fabric. The room hast two giant walls, two regular sized walls and the whole ceiling. It would be something around 150 sq m to cover. Do all that by joining fabric scraps in the sewing machine would be just insane, and would take about a hundred hours on the sewing machine. I had to come up with another plan. I spent quite a time thinking if other possibilities and I thought if two alternatives: using cardboard as a base and gluing the fabric on top it, or using a paper stapler to joining the scraps instead of sewing. I tested two times of glue: white glue didn't work, the fabric would stick to the cardboard, and 'cola universal' with takes quite a time to dry and took as much time as the sewing process. The least worse option seemed to be using the stapler but even like this it would be hard to make it to cover all the room. In the end I decided to do this the the walls that would me more apparent, in the beginning of the experience, and in the wall that would have a lot of things on front it wound make sense have all this work to be hidden in the end, so I'm going to paint an old bed sheet that Was going to garbage bin, and use this as a backdrop fot this wall. The other parts that are not as important as these two I'm just covering them with all sorts of plastic garbage I have collected such as bottles and styrofoam.

# data[].attributes.body
I was felling that the drawing I did yesterday was not enough to represent what the space would look like in the exhibition, so I did a simple digital drawing in perspective of the objects placed in the room. After writing all the details of the work in the document, I realised that I didn't add any information about sound. I'm not intending to use it because I would be too much trouble considering everything I'm doing already demands to much time and effort. But I figured It would be best to have it and deciding not to use it than the other way around, so I added on simple line saying I might also need speakers. There are some other things I am considering doing but the ideas are still quite clouded, so these are things I'm experimenting on the next few weeks and deciding afterward.
I had the idea of giving to people reusable bags so they consider stop using plastic bags, and I could screen print a nice design or the projet's brand logo in it. But I'm concerned I won't have enough time to do it, and also I don't thing my budget will allow me to purchase these bags. I also did some research on prices to buy them ready with my pattern, but the good options are too expensive.
Another thing that I'm considering using on my exhibition but I didn't included on my proposal is giving people lanterns in the entrance of the room. It will be lighten by a blue light and the idea is to make the garbage look good under blue light and when you hit it with the white light of the lantern it just looks like garbage. I didn't actually tried it yet, that's why it's not in the proposal.

# data[].attributes.body
Last weed I did some sketches of the room I'm willing to use for the exhibition, and today I doubled checked the measurements and started doing a digital version of those drawings. I did different drawings for each section of the proposal (2d, 3d and 4d, and also drawing and reference image). I'm going to cover all the room with fabric and my tutor advised me having wooden boards fixed on the walls and ceiling in a way I can then fix the fabric with stapler and it's easier and faster. The tutor also advised us to make it as detailed and specific as possible. So I tried to do the drawings as detailed as possible and I also set a color coding where the pink represents the size, the blue represents distance, the brown is for wood and the greys and blacks are the structure of the room itself. I didn't specified the scale of the drawing because I didn't know the size the image would have once placed on the pdf file, so I just added the real mesurements of things.

# data[].attributes.body
I did everything in Adobe Illustrator and tried to keep as simple and clear as possible. For me it was hard to represent what I was intending to make the room link like science everything are just drawings and reference test pieces, and it would be impossible to make a collage with perspective of the installation, so I just did a drawing with an upper view of the room to show where I'm planning to put each of the objects. I also decided to use the scale module I started last week just to represent the covering of the walls and floor. If I decided to do a really detailed scale module with every object I as planing to add I would loose too much useful time of work, and the drawings were already doing a great job on exemplifying the installation.

# data[].attributes.body
We had a quick crit about the exhibition proposal. The girls that were with me gave me the idea of unread of doing two different spaces to make only one space that in the blue light looks really beautiful, but at some time when the white light hits the space the viewer realize that it’s all garbage. I thought about that and it's a pretty great idea that would act as a "wow"factor in my work. I thought of two possibilities for it:
Using a mechanism that makes the light change from blue to white every minute or two.
Adding a white spotlight that keeps spinning and showing a different mart of the room (when the light hits the walls people can see that its garbage)

It's Saturday (27.04) and I had another idea of a possibility for this surprise and also to include the viewer in my work. In the beginning of the project I proposed that I was going to use the body, so the audience interacting with my work is an important factor. For that reason I thought of giving lanterns to people on the door and the them light up the things and discovering that it's actually trash. This would be also a nice and easy way to set a limit of people that can get in each time.

# data[].attributes.body
It has bowls with herbs that gives a unique smell to the work it blossoms in me a feeling of being around nature, or maybe in a forest.

Also the colors of the work are mainly green yellow and red, these are also the colors that someone would usually see in a forest.

# data[].attributes.body
Before going to the exhibition today I was thinking of building a pathway where people would walk through, and it would have a starting and finishing point. But after seeing the installations today I realised the importance of people being able to appreciate as much time as they want. I saw this red tree and I wanted to spend as much time as I wanted just looking at all the details of the work. If I define a way to walk people wouldn't be able to stop and really look at the details of the installation and it might devalue my work. That's why I'm now considering doing just a room but not a tunnel, in a way people can move around freely without having to follow a path.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I did some research on artist and installations reference for my project, and got to the idea of using LED with neon effect to create a sort of XXX space.
The only problem is that they are not really common and are a bit expensive. Tomorrow I'm going to suppliers to see what I can find and to know the prices, before taking any decisions.

# data[].attributes.body
In trios we discussed about the space we were thinking about exhibiting our projects, and I thought of two other spaces that I could use to make the installation. One of them is upstairs in the little room: it's great because it

# data[].attributes.body
I sorted the plastic bags I had by color, separating the sand color, transparent and white, and the blue and green ones. I was just moving the bags around and noticed that the transparent ones when they ar kind of kneaded they look like the top part of jelly fishes. That's is also why turtles choke by eating plastic bags that they think are jelly fishes. I'm gonna try sewing the plastic bags into ball shapes and leave them hanging from the ceiling as if they were floating in the ocean.

# data[].attributes.body
I did a bigger version of it and it took almost the same amount of time, and 4 times more paper.The spikes for the small one was made of 1/8 of an A4 paper, for this one I used 1/2 a sheet of paper. If I come to use it in the installation I will be great to do big versions of it cause it takes the same amount of time but takes up more space and that's a good thing considering that I have the whole room to cover.

# data[].attributes.body
I found one page on the project book where there was some experiments with paper spikes, and it reminded me of the sea creatures that are spiky: urchin. So I built one out of 5 sheets of A4 paper. It took me about 1 hour to finish so Itaboraí probably not the best option to the exhibition considering that I won’t have much timeand  I have a big space to fill.
Tomorrow I’ll try doing a bigger size to see if it takes as much time as this one. It would be good to i clud this in the installation because it can cause a sensation of vulnerability.

# data[].attributes.headline
22.04 The most creative people are the ones who work harder

# data[].attributes.subject
22.04 The most creative people are the ones who work harder

# data[].attributes.body
I was having a look at the old pages of my project book and I found this research page where I wrote all the interesting things I got from the lecture with the animator Oliver Tossand. In it I wrote this: “Most of the experiments they do in Dream Works are not resieles. I have to do experiment a lot and do a lot of work to have one idea that really pleases me”
I was worried that I spent too much time thinking of ideas that I don’t want to make any more, and I thought it was a problem, but now I realize that all the time I spent doing research experimenting with those ideas made dat to where I’m now, and they are not lost, they just made me think in a different way then I did in the beguiling of the project. Now I can use all the this I tried and experimented with but instead of making clothes as costumes and photography I can use this for creating a beautiful and intense installation.

# data[].attributes.body
Even though this plastic bag is green itts very transparent and putting something white undernieth makes the green really faded, this way it’s easier to combine it to the matireals with anther colors.

# data[].attributes.body
I also was struggling a bit with the definition of what this brand is about so I made a temporary description just to have it clear in my mind: Thanks Plants is a brand that informs people and discuss about the importance of preserving the environment, and spreads alternatives to becoming more eco friendly each day.
This is what I've got so far, but it's a work in progress.
It's also to already have something written about it in the instagram account bio so I can start sharing the page and getting followers.

# data[].attributes.body
I did the digital version of the logo I designed yesterday by drawing circles and cutting to the size I needed. Once it was finished It looked like the positioning was wrong even though  it was perfectly alined. Thats because the logo does not fit perfectly a circle and has a diagonal direction. To make it look like it's right I used the trick of putting the letters lower and more to the left in relation to the circle, and it worked, specially looking at the small logo on instagram.
This is the final result:

# data[].attributes.body
Before doing the alterations:

# data[].attributes.body
I decide to create a sort of brand with name and logo for my project to give it more value to the work and also to do more literal graphic design. I intent to create an instagram page and maybe a facebook page to share all my researches about the environment and alternatives to live more ecologically, also to show and register my project and maybe inspire other people. After thinking of many names that already exist I finally got to this: Thanks Plants. Plants meaning nature, in a sense that we should be thanking everything nature give to us and taking care of it but we are destroying it instead.
I did lot of sketches of logos trying to use the initials T and P (for thanks plants) until I got to this design that transform into a leaf. I needed to make shapes in a way I could move it around, but I didn't want to do it digitally because the drawing movements are more limited, so I decided to draw the base of what I wanted on a piece of paper and put the outlines this way I could move it around the paper to choose the exact position of the lines. To change the lines and make it longer I added black tape on the edge. After the first try I decided that it would look better with a longer line to close the bowl of the "P". Now I have to make a digital vector for it and maybe choose a color to use.

# data[].attributes.body
I came back to old pages of my project book and found this paper sculpture that looks like spirals, and it remembers me a lot of jelly fish tentacles. Painting it blue or a light purple and using this on the decoration of the environment I create in my installation would give a great felling of sea and would look beautiful as well keeping my work far from looking like trash.
I'm travelling during the holidays what means that I don't have any materials to experiment with or do anything other then researching and having ideas. For that reason I'm making a to do list of practical things for when I get back to ebac on Monday.

# data[].attributes.body
This week I did a small prototype of a dress using plastic bag and another plastic net and tried painting it with spray to have a better look that would not appear as garbage. It flailed. At first looking at it it seemed great, but onde I tried to move it the paint started breaking apart out of the plastic. The material of the bag does not have enough adherence to fix the paint without breaking. I'll have to find another way of painting it or using the plastic in its original color which seems to be the wiser choice.

# data[].attributes.body
Today after doing some experimentations, I started thinking that the idea I had before of doing a vídeo was too immature and was not create as much impact on people as I wish. Talking about fashion industry is over done, and many people have already seen fashion made from trash, it didn’t seem to have anything truly original.
So I came back to the first pages on my project book where I’ve done tons of research about trash ending up in the ocean, until I got to this new idea.
After a few minutes I realised that one of the best ways of making people actually think about something they are doing wrong is by creating an oppressive situation where they feel suffocated.
I started doing some drawings and got to this circular shape where everything surrounds the viewer and as narrow it is the bigger the feeling of being embraced by something. It could maybe be a tunnel that starts wide and gets narrow as it goes, all made with trash. The trash we produce is usually on the ground in a "lower" position, what would be the feeling of putting it on top, almost swallowing us.
I've been focusing a lot about doing wearables, but it also made me think of other ways of using the body not only as a surface to put the art, but maybe letting the viewer be part of the work by making an interactive installation.

# data[].attributes.body
I did some sketches on the makeup I wanted to try on my model. I did this thinking of the heavy runway makeups that are kind of scary. Since I'm thinking about focusing on the fashion industry I'm exploring the characteristics of the fashion shows and advertising of new collections.

# data[].attributes.body
I wanted to make a flower out of these foam stripes, but since its hard to make it keep the shape, I decided to try hand stitching it to a piece of cardboard. It works but it takes forever to make and its not worth it, expectably because if I wanted to use this to make a sort of costume I would need many of the same as this. Using hot glue is also not a good option because it's apparent, and the finishing is bad.
I could get a flower like aesthetic just by rolling a piece of foam into itself and doing a simple stitch in the end, but it would also require more time and more material.

# data[].attributes.body
I cut the foam into small rectangles, folded in half and sew one of the edges together with the sewing machine. Putting this pieces together it looks like a neck ruffle. Even though it's in a smaller scale, it could also be made in the same size but longer, and used as small detail ruffles in human size pieces.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I experimented with foam: I have this left overs from foam fabric rolls, and I tried to use the sewing machine to join them together. I tried four different stitches, and the one that seems to work best holding the two of them together and without leaving any gaps is to do a zigzag stitch with the largest width and the shorter distance between the stitches. By using a black thread (the same color of the material) it looks good and quite elegant.

# data[].attributes.headline
11.04 The second most unsustainable industry 

# data[].attributes.subject
11.04 The second most unsustainable industry 

# data[].attributes.body
Today I saw a video end read some articles about fast fashion (in research padlet) and the Fashion Industrie is the second most polluting industry in the world, I did a list of some of the things that causes that:
- Fabric scraps
- Rest of bad formed fibers
- Waxes
- Threads
- Wool (only part is used)
- Old clothes
- Dye containers
- Packaging
- Paper and plastic
- Bags
- Water from dyeing process (it's a lot of water)
- Fuel from transportation and machines
- Tags
- Pollutant gases from synthetic fiber production
- Everything we might through in the trash

It's a subject that I wold like to talk about in my project because it's about sustainability and I've been on the other side of this, when I thought fast fashion was awesome and even went to fashion school to "help polluting the planet". After six months I quit and decided to stop buying things that I don't need, and  that's where my interest about sustainability grew. I think it would be a good area to focus on for this project considering my past with fashion.

# data[].attributes.body
I had this idea of cutting circles out of old cardboard boxes to create texture, so I glued one on top of the other and painted. In the end It made me remember of snake skin texture, but it became to hard to use as fabric or other thing that would have to be malleable. For that reason I tried to simulate sequin fabrics but using the cardboard with glue, instead of gluing the inspire circle I used just a drop of glue on the edge of the circle this way the paper underneath can still move like a fabric.

# data[].attributes.body
I tried creating a prototype of a ball gown in the scale of my model doll. I used a supermarket plastic bag to do the skirt: I I did a cut in the middle of the bag that became the waist, and for the corpet I had to improvise simomething, so in my bag of plastic trash I found this net that is used around fruits and it gets the shape of whatever it undernieth, so I found it would be perfect for the corpet. E hands sew the two of them together, to do a real size version of it I could try using the sewing machine to get it more secure.

# data[].attributes.body
I used paper to make a body prototype to make it easier to do experiments in a small scale this way I can use this as a mold or a base to whatever I’m making. Yesterday I had a hard time making things without a surface to put test and take pictures. With this it will be easier and faster to make clothes in a smaller scale.

# data[].attributes.body
I started experimenting with paper I had already cut in stripes, and passing the ruler makes the paper curl. I thought it would be a nice thing doing a sort of skirt or maybe a topwith  it and this is the final result.

# data[].attributes.body
I was felling really lost with all my ideas one very different from the other so Monique advised me to look at the proposal I made and try to identify the ideas that better respond to what I asked for. With that I realized that the to ideas I hadn’t in the beginning were the best and there was a lot that I can still explore in these ideas, now I have to do a lot more experimentation than that I was doing because having these different ideas slowed me dow last week. Now it’s time to focus on experimenting with as many materials as possible starting today.

# data[].attributes.body
I would like to make the tree really big as if it was a real tree and people could walk around it, but there are to issues: I don't know if I'll get enough space for this, and I don't know how I would make this and make sure that it's safe and won't fall. My tutor gave me the idea of creating an installation space instead that people can get inside and interact.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I had a new idea for the project, that is making a big tree with all the materials I have, and make it look pretty even though it's made from trash. It would have a huge impact to te viewer to see a big sculpture made with trash. The tree is simple of life and its contradictory because the producing of waste is one of the main reason for animals and people dying. It's a symbol of the destruction of nature that is caused by the human waste production.

# data[].attributes.body
Once I put the paper balls on the structure the shape changed a little bit mas it became a little unstable, so I’m trying to use this structure and adding a feel more stripes of cardboard to fit better on the head. It worked perfectly and the end and I did with ribbons made it fit perfectly in any head.
I stlpent the rest of the day gluing the paper on the structure, it takes a lot of time. I had to use hot glue because the withe glue takes forever to dry and it would take me a whole week ably to finish gluing all the paper.

# data[].attributes.body
I when home earlier to use the sewing machine and start building the wig. I used a really old tides I had and was destroyed to make a sort of cap. At first I thought of using this as the base of the structure, but once it stretches everything will simply fall apart. One option would be to hand sew the paper together instead of gluing it, but When I tried doing it it became too loose, the paper balls didn't really stayed together really well, and it also the paper would tear up really easily.

# data[].attributes.body
After waiting for the paint to dry I came back to it and there were a feel spots that needed a second coat, and also the parts that was folded had a hard time to get intirely coverd. When finished they looked a little bit like smal gold flowers.

# data[].attributes.body
My idea is to make a gold wig that looks like black power hair using paper. Just like this drawing. I started making paper balls and it takes more time than it looks like, specially when I’m trying to keep them as round as possible. In half an hour I made 35 paper balls and I still have so much more to go. A strategy I thought of is making balls not so perfectly round and with more volume to put underneath the others, so it will probably take less time and less paper to finish.

# data[].attributes.body
I stated doing a structure using thin cardboard, the bad thing about it is that it can’t be adjusted to diferente sizes of head, so I don’t know it it’s the best solution. Latter on today I’m gonna try adding a sort of button to the bottom part in a way it can be adjusted, but I’m quite unsure it’s gonna work.

This is just a trial, it’s really not well finished and I’m hyping to use hot glue to accelerate the process, for the final wig I should make it very clean and making sure it does not look trashy.

# data[].attributes.body
I tried spray painting paper balls with metallic gold color and the result was espetacular, it does not look so realistic in real life but in the picture it looks like real metal. I was unsure if it was gonna work  but I’m glad it did. First I bought gold paint from a brand and the color was wrong, the packaging said it was gold but for real it was brown, it’s really important to check if the colors work as soon as possible once I buy a net material, because things like this can happen every time, so I could switch so another brand that is even cheaper then the other one, and have a stunning metal effect.

# data[].attributes.body
I did 10 more drawings having ideias of possible images to make using all the materials I have. I believe it’s important to have many ideas because some might go wrong or maybe I think does not belong to the exhibition, so I have 20 to choose from and I can be very selective not worrying abou not having enough work. Everything I drawn was a prediction of what I think the objects behavior like, without having a preview experimentation, so it might work or it could not work and I’ll have to come up with another solution l. That’s why I planned to star the experimentations tomorrow. They have sewing machine here at ebac so all I gotta do is bring the material that I’m planning to experiment with. For now I’m planning on joining plastic bags of all kinds and bringing them to something similar to a fabric like material that can be easily manipulated and have a clean finish. Afterwords I plan on mixing plastic with lights and playing with the transparency.

# data[].attributes.body
Last week I didn't really do everything I was planning to, and I was absent on Friday for personal reasons, so I'm feeling kind of stuck. Thats why I decided to rethink the whole project and make necessary changes on my action plan, as well as planning this week. Also Since I'm more likely to make wearables and scene Design for the project I want to have more ideas in this concept so I know what to experiment with.

# data[].attributes.body
There is not much to reflect about today, I went to Brás pick up the stuff I planned yesterday. I would say that it's really time consuming, luckily I planned the entire day only to do this. Once I have all the material I had to store that in the right places so it was a good thing preparing all the storage space yesterday also, and both things (getting the left overs and organising) together took the whole day. Thats only because I went only to three stores and decided not to go to the fourth one cause I already had enough material. If I decide to get more material in the future I can use this numbers as a reference of time.

Now I have sorts of fabric scraps, plastics, cardboards, paper, lazer cut left overs... I have to organize my self to do experiments with all that.

# data[].attributes.body
I spent most of my day calling to places that have cutting service for wood, rubber and fabric, asking for left overs. Most of the places I called have no interest on giving me the material and would radder sell it, but some of them was happy to help me giving me the materials that would normally go to waste. I found a supplier that makes lazer cut and have full bags of waste materials every day, a fabric cutter that throws away tones of fabric scraps every day, a place that have moldes for flip-flops, I talked to the lady that sells and she already kept some of the leftover materials for me, and another place that cuts fabric and plastic for making tote bags, and also is happy to help my project.
All of these places produces a lot of waste every day, and all of this goes to trash. People don't see the amount of waste they produce, cause it's not just about food packaging, the making clothes produces lots of fabric scraps, shoes produces rubber and plastic waste. Every time we buy new things we are producing lots of trash indirectly, cause that's what it takes to produce new things, so the ideal would be consuming less, and just when necessary. I'm gonna try to explore this subject on my experimentations for the next few days, it might lead somewhere.

# data[].attributes.body
I came down to two really broad Ideas

# data[].attributes.body
I started working with the materials that I already had in hands that was paper from my "Is it a book?" project. I started folding and cutting to get different shaves and volumes and I got to this spiral like shape, and by connecting many of these one to another I could come up with a really long spiral maybe hanging from the ceiling. I could also paint the paper another color to hide all the stuff that is written.

# data[].attributes.body
Another Idea I had by experimenting with paper was to make a sort of wig by bringing together this kind of paper spring. But it takes too long to fold this in a size that would look ok as hair simulation. each one of these took me about 20. minutes to prepare and fold, so I'm still not sure if it's worth it to spent so much time in this not knowing if it's gonna work. I should probably make a doll sized version of it just so I can see if it looks good and maybe decide to do a real size version of the wig or not.

# data[].attributes.body
By adding one subject in the center of the page and writing every idea that comes in mu head about this subject I can have many ideas quickly. Once I write down one idea another comes to mind that is slightly related to the last one, after doing it a few times I come up with an idea that has nothing to do with the first one, in the and I have many different visions of the sabe subject. I did that for “using the body” and “ using waste”, afterwords I tried combining the ideas for each one of them and selected the ones I want to  experiment with this week. This technique is great cause if I keep thinking only about that one question from the project proposal I will always have the same ideas, if I break the question down to two or three subjects it makes it easier to have many ideas without worrying about this being adequate to that question, afterwords I can combine every idea I had to answer the question.

I can come back to this brain storm later on the project with fresh eyes cause I can have nem ideas with what is written.

# data[].attributes.body
The lecture was great, specially because he inspired me to keep trying to achieve my goals even if it feels hopeless. He is French and spent one and a half years sending every day at least one email or portfolio to California animation studios, and finally he got a job at DreamWorks.
His work can be related to my project in a way that his art process has lots to do with the body, he likes to use the body movements, walking around the studio and using gravity to make drawings. This made me think that I don't have necessaraly to take pictures of models for my project, but I could also just experience with the body in the process of making, maybe as a tool, or as shape reference or molde. He also uses pictures of real people when developing characters. Using makeup and photoshop he starts building his characters, this is something that I could explore also. He said that an artist should be very aware of their likes and dislikes because there is no point on making something I don't agree with, and that's an important point on my project, since I have enough time to come up with something I like, and this will be exposed with my name in the final exhibition, it has to have my signature.

# data[].attributes.body
Charles Watson talked about originality, and people that are creative are not trying to be creative. This is lecture was very important to creative practice because he gave us really important tips on the importance of making mistakes, that is something that I'm usually afraid of doing, so after the talk I have some changes that I want to do on the way I work. Creativity is natural if you find the relationship between what you love doing and and what you are doing. This means that if I try to have original ideas I'll probably fail, but if I try to have a lot of ideas and experiment a lot because I feel interested about it and love recovering new things, suddenly been creative and having original ideas will become natural.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I went to the museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo. I saw this work I already had researched about by Henrique Oliveira, called Muro from 2015. He uses old wood to make organic shapes and volumes.
I don't usually enjoy going to museums because I have the idea that everything I see in museums I could find online, but today I saw so many things that I wouldn't even look for online, that really inspired me.

# data[].attributes.body
I called as many people as I know to ask them for this clean trash. At first I thought of going to suppliers, but then I realised that even people around me are producing waste constantly, and I can use this project to set an exemple to people to follow, and even in a small scale try to reduce the waste they produce. That's Why I choose to collect the materials my family and friends are producing.

# data[].attributes.body
Today I had a few ideas that I want to try: doing paper and plastic wigs, using plastic bags to simulate smoke and using fabric underwater. So I did some research on that items. I realised that is good to make analytical research on the sketchbook other than just on padlet, because I have more freedom to write, draw and analyse the images.

# data[].attributes.body
I'm still not sure about what the outcome of my project is going to be, so for the action plan I tried to guess in what stage im gonna be each week, and make a really open plan so I can change and rethink my plan every week depending on how things work out throughout the project.

# data[].attributes.body
Writing the proposal took me more time than the expected because I started doing it three days ago, but since then I my perspective about the project changed.
At first wanted to work with recyclable materials to create sustainable design, but then I started to look for references of design that uses human models to create the composition, combining with other materials. I was interested about ir and started researching about the use of performance and how I could use that are create graphic design. So I rewrote the proposal about three times until I got to the result I wanted. I think I used my time well because I spend until the last hour working on it, and didn't have to rush.