A Day of Mini Mobile Making –

In order to help add some weight to my intended proposal for college, I felt I needed to produce something to scale. Today I had a really enjoyable session making some mobile elements with my mum to produce a mini mobile.  She was chief cardboard cutter and sticker and I was designer in chief.  Between us we managed to produce 16 small mobile units (i.e. pieces for the mobile).

Below is a time-lapse video of my activity.  The main reason for producing a smaller scale mobile was to decide exactly how I would like to string/hang the larger version.  I have been really struggling with the concept of actually hanging my mobile.  For example do I take an Alexander Calder approach and have the pieces more rigidly fixed? Or do I suspend them so they are more free to move, or, do I opt for a mix of both? I felt that the only way to answer these questions was to actually make a small prototype.  I also decided in the interest of speed, I would only use circles as they were easier to cut.  The suspended shapes didn’t really matter, for me it was more about suspension.

I’m working in college over the next couple of days so sadly I’ll have to break from my making activities until the weekend.  However, I think that by the end of the weekend I will have enough circles to at least start experimenting with different ways of hanging.