Balance Workshop

Balancing using a range of materials

The challenge of this workshop was to create a balanced composition that would hold without the use of adhesives, wires etc. We achieved this with my teammate Nelly and felt that we created interesting and diverse compositions.  Personally, I thought this was a challenge that didn't really grasp my attention at first as I felt it had no sense of direction as I prefer to have a set route when designing or creating something. However, once I was involved with the workshop the idea seemed more appealing and the pictures above were the first compositions we created. I discovered that randomly adding different materials and developing as you go was the best way to work.

Water wheel

There was one material I was inspired by which was the large rolling pin. It reminded me of water wheels therefore we tried balancing the rolling pin on tracks so that we could add things on top. I discovered that the idea of filling a pot with water and placing it straight on the middle of the rolling pin would keep it balanced and prevent it from rolling. However, we could not achieve the balance all the time so the amount of water we put in was very important. Our project had quite a scientific approach to it which was interesting. Perhaps to get the balance right quicker we should have experimented on a smaller scale first.