the process.

THROUGHOUT the study of the word obtain, myself & our group overcame many challenging obstacles. To make the process easier to tackle on a large scale, we each individually began the long project by constructing twenty different graphic arrangements of a single word. This gave us the ability to “see” one word many different ways, which came into play when we joined into groups to tackle the large word. From here, we each chose a letter of the word to individually construct to start experimenting with model building. These letters were then transferred to the three-foot scale letters of the final piece.

OUR final concept was collaboratively thought of by brainstorming how “obtain” is used in context. We came to the conclusion that in terms of college students, the majority of the time when one “obtains” is when obtaining information, commonly done at the library. Thus this became the location of our large model.

INSPIRED by the concept of the library, we chose to make our model appear to be a book, to fully engage in the location it would be placed in. To build this, we used many large sheets of cardboard that were scored, folded, cut, bent, painted, and glued. Oh, and a lot of teamwork, too.