Paper jumper

I can normally be seen sporting a pair of long dangley earrings and am quite a hyper person so i move a lot. My tutor pointed out to me that as i move around my earrings swing all over the place. From this an idea was developed. If i could make my earrings produce a pattern on a white T-shirt it would be like documenting the movement of my head.

So at home that evening i took a pair of long earrings and attached lengths of wool to the ends. then mixed up some pink acrylic paint with water and left the earrings to soak for a few minutes. As i am a student, spare T-shirts are few and far between so improvised by cutting a hole in the middle of an A3 page and wearing that. I then put on the earrings and went about my business for about a half hour.


This is me looking super classy wearing a page and paint soaked earrings ( I'm staring a new trend)

This is the final result.

I actually really like the pattern left, its very messy yet you can see a certain level of control in the markings. There is only markings at one side of the page as the earrimgs never came over my shoulder. My plan is that the next time i do it i will stay reapeating it with different colors on the same page, layering the design. I have to admit it was actually good fun doing this piece.

But i do have one piece of advice for anyone else that's going to try this, don't let your Friends have your camera afterwards, as there are now pictures of me during said experiment on a certain popular social networking site and yes i did get quite a slagging, but all in good fun :)