PERSPEX MOBILE and LIGHT SCULPTURE

Using Alexander Calder's mobiles as an inspiration we set about producing a mobile of our own using perspex and translusent paint.

We began this project by creating the shapes that would make up the mobile, this was done using the same technique that we used in the Cubist project.  Participants took a range of different shaped objects and traced around them on a large sheet of paper.  People were encouraged to overlap the traced shapes as much as possible.  Once finished the shapes and the areas where the shapes intersected were cut out.  The paper shapes were distributed amongst participants who choose what colours they should be by colouring the shapes in.  The shapes were then traced out on a sheet of perspex and cut out using a jigsaw.  The individual perspex pieces were then painted by participants using the coloured paper shapes as a reference.  Once dry all the pieces were then arranged on poles and balanced to create the final mobile.

As  as side project from the mobile project  is the Light Sculpture project.  Once the paper shapes were traced onto the sheets of perspex it was realised that the arrangement of shapes had potential.  We made four copies of the perspex with shapes traced on and participants painted the shapes using the paper shapes as a guide.

The final piece can be freestanding as a light sculpture or unfolded and installed to fit in a window as a piece of stained glass art.