Soft paper

Painted handmade paper. Soft.

Flowers and nails

Nails and pin flowers. Hard and soft together. Top view (square) and bird's eye view (bottom).

Rubber bands

Elastic.

 

Hard-Soft

Tactile experiments. Freshman Foundation, VCU

Hard, soft, sharp, dull, warm, cool, high, low. In this exercise many word pairs were given to the students who were incouraged to visualize and materialize them. Some of the solutions were unexpected, as in the case where the materials were not presented side by side, but were perfectly integrated in a single composition.

1990