Parade Structure
In my junior fall at MIT I took the class 4.322 Intro to 3D Art. As a class we worked together on an art piece that was part-3D structure, part-parade. Each person was tasked with creating one triangular pyramid, each with a different pattern silkscreened onto the fabric. We prototyped a few different structures with straw and tissue paper pyramids, but settled on the shape featured above. For our patterns, we were tasked with recording sounds that related to life on MIT campus. For my audio design, I recorded the sounds of the dining hall. The waves represent the volume of the voices in the recording, and the triangles represent the sounds of utensils clattering.
With the design I created on Illustrator, I printed it onto a transparency film and transferred it onto a screen, prepped with photo emulsion, with a UV light. Once the screen was ready, I tested the pattern a few times to make sure it worked. For the pyramids, we decided to use white ink on organza. Once the patterns were silk-screened, the fabric was handsewn on the pyramids, constructed from wooden dowels. Then, we assembled the pyramids in a way that we could lift them on poles for the parade, but quickly assemble the final structure. On the final day of class, we paraded down MIT's Infinite Corridor and assembled the structure on Killian Court.
