Exhibition Piece

In class, we had to make our exhibition piece for the exhibition for everybody to see.
We had approximately 3 weeks to make it. For my piece, I decided to have a cardboard
box, with birds coming out of a book inside the box.

I was inspired to do my exhibition piece, as our teacher gave us a website- http://www.funforever.net/archives/dont-try-this-at-home/
This was the picture that inspired me, I could not find the artist though-

I made this because I liked the idea of butterflies flying out of the book.
I think because of the butterflies, this piece reminded me of peace.
So for my piece, I decided to make it quite peaceful, so I made the background
blue which reminds me of peace.

But, for my piece, I didn't do exactly the same as the artist.
Instead of butterflies, I made cranes/birds coming out of the book using
the pages of the old book I got from Oxfam books.
Also, instead of leaving the background plain, I decided to collage it blue
using magazines etc.

This was my final outcome:

To make this, all I really needed was pieces of magazine, a cardboard box, a book and some string.
I made the background by using small pieces of blue from the magazine and stuck it down on the box, on all the sides. Once that was dry, I ripped a few pages from the back of the book, and made it into cranes. I searched on google to see how to make the cranes. I attached the crane to somes string, and stuck it on the inside of the box. I placed some of the cranes facing upwards, so it looked like they were coming out of the book. I also ripped some parts of the middle of the book, to look the like the cranes had just ripped out of the page.

Overall, I am quite pleased with my exhibition piece as I put quite alot of effort into collaging the background. I also like the way I made the cranes out of the book. However, I know I already spent alot of time collaging the background, but It was quite scruffy as parts of it were sticking out- so next time, I just add more glue to it, to make it look  more smooth.