Final Assignment

My idea of final assignment comes from the physicality and my own preferences in plastic bags. During my time in the US for a few months, I went grocery shopping every week to get my necessity. Every time I got back to my dorm, I was shocked by the numbers of plastic bags I collected in my drawer. I have folded all the plastic bags, some used as rubbish bags, still I had my drawer full of plastic bags when I checked out. I was depressed to see so many bags being threw away and destroyed the environment once they got to the landfills.

Based on this experience, I would like to do my work using plastic bags. I would like to experiment the possibilities and texture of plastic bags. I tried to fuse the plain white plastic bags and make a patch work out of them.



I fused the plastic bags together, it is so environmental unfriendly, but it turned out to be interesting as the texture of the plastic bags changed. It hardened and became a sheet of hard plastic. I discovered how heat worked well with thin plastic bags.




After doing the patch work, it seems that I can go beyond the screen and make something meaningful, such as to fuse plastic bags with logos. I have collected these plastic bags from friends and me, these are things we bought recently. I found that we were not going shopping for clothes or non-necessities, rather, we bought food, books for the graduation thesis.

I fused the plastic bags using an iron, turned it to medium level for wood.



These are works done by others.