Relief Form



A Relief Form piece of work by Cara Barer.



 

In class, we had to produce a piece of Relief Form work. Our work had been inspired by an artist named Cara Barer, who had produced many types of creative and imaginative Relief forms. Cara would make this by dampening the pages, and she would start curling them around. Sometimes she would paint or dye the page, to produce a bolder colour. Cara Barer had founded this idea as one day when it was raining, she saw yellow pages (which is rather thick) outside being drenched. She saw that it had formed into bent pages.

And so In class, we decided to make something similar to what Cara Barer did. So we were given a cut out piece of magazine, glue and loads of paperclips. Unlike Cara, we did not have to dampen our magazine. We had just curled it, then kept it in place by using a paperclip. In the end, when we had finished the whole way around, we could start glueing the parts together for our end product.





                

Side view of my Relief Form work.



Full view of my Relief Form work.





Overall, I think my final piece went quite well, as I could curl and make different shapes in my work. However, next time, if I could, I would dye my magazine like Cara did, to make it look bolder.

:)