Pause exercises

This exercise on pause was very interesting to me, and I actually had a good time doing it. My example is more of a sculpture piece, in that, you need to manipulate it in order to understand how it represents pause.

I used some Dot Matrix paper and put some electrical tape on both sides of the two surrounding sheets of paper, forming a continuous line. This way when you hold the paper when folded up, it has a fluid line running all around it. However, when you open up the paper, the center sheet has a break in the line, only continuing on the other side. That is where the pause comes into play. The basic idea is that you are never sure when a pause will occur in the span of any given events. So, you can continue flipping the paper over and over again, until, you decide to open it up and take a pause from the mundane line.


I also partook in a collaboration with Josie-Anne (forgive me if I have misspelled your name). She initially had the idea that passengers on an airplane take a "pause" from the world below them when taking a flight. Upon making a generic paper airplane and I then suggested we try to construct a model to look more like a Boeing 747. Once that was accomplished, we suspended the airplane (upside-down) from the projector with electrical tape. The effect on the class was not our initial idea, but rather, the object seemed suspended or paused in time, before a fatal crash. It still showed pause so I was happy.

PS. I prefer the spelling "aeroplane" rather than airplane. It seems more chic but MS Word doesn't seem to recognize that word, so I played it safe.