Wood Work! (light box)

The inside when complete looked better than the outside!

In our last week of induction work within a bunch of workshops that we`ll probably never go into again... we had to work with wood or metal.

According to everyone else who had already done this workshop, it was apparently boring as hell so I already wasn`t looking forward to what we where going to have to produce during the week. The idea was that we all start off by making something seriously simple, which was just the frame for a box... That was it, make a frame for a box and then work within it with materials of your choice.

So, because I`m not a fan of woodwork or metal work and everyone else is, I decided to go straight with wood and get on with it. No faffing around, well I thought so until I got a different idea. Within our work, we still had to work with one of the objects that we bought in at the beginning of the year; so if we all go back to the last update and remember; mine was three phones.

But that didn`t mean I was going to create a phone out of wood... no, no, no way was I going to spend a week creating that. The only thing was with my idea, two other people had already done similar things with their boxes and I didn`t want it to seem like I had copied or was going for something simple.

With my work, I wanted to create a lightbox. A box with lights in, seriously that simple. But, it was too simple so I came up with something a little bit different.
The box I was made only had two small wooden frames to keep it together, two sides of normal wood and then four sides of wood with holes all over them. Inside the box I was going to put my screen prints onto plastic and then the lights... If that even makes any sense. This meant that when you look through the holes, you can see the keyboard screen print because of the lights.

It did make my piece a bit more interesting, considering everyone else was literally just making a normal box. I can`t really say much about the process, I had to use a series of machines that had circular blades to cut out the holes, a bandsaw to cut the sides of the box and then having to go back to the screen printing studios to add the prints.
The only thing I can really say is that all of the wood for the frames was attached together with a drill and screws, then the sides managed to stay in place with simple nails and a hammer. There isn`t really anything to talk about, I must of gone for the most simple idea I could of possibly come up with on the spot.

Oh well, I still managed to impress my lecturer Dennis; I think if I went for anything more "creative" then I wouldn`t of really enjoyed the week and I might of given up so much sooner than I did. I even got that bored that I took the Wednesday off really, I did no work for the wood project but a lot of work for a sound project that`s coming up... yes, another project.

I`m beginning to think the projects are seriously never ending during your first year, it`s hard and complicated to get your head around the timetables. We`ve done a plain induction week to the course, a whole week of drawing, a week of working with paper, a week with wire, a week with photoshop, a week combining two of those elements. Then from there, we moved onto a week of clay and plaster, a week of screen printing and a week of woodwork. Then we have a week of working with sound, and then three weeks to combine wood, printing or clay work.

It`s honestly confusing me...

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