After making two attempts at the mobius strip made with moulded cups – one where the material was art cut from newspapers, the other simply newspaper. I have found that I have over-complicated what I am doing. Again, I cannot see the wood for the trees!
The material gathering process by going through newspapers and cutting out art is a long one, and it does take a while to gather enough material to make 25 or so cups, but I am getting something from it.
To proceed, I need to find a way of gathering more newspapers for my raw material. So, I am asking librarians to save old newspapers (they often hold current newspapers), I could do the same with local cafe’s and I’m considering delivering a note around to neighbours asking for newspapers before they go into their recycling bins. I need the least time-consuming way to gather this material or order to have enough to work with.
All this is so I can make 400 or so moulded cups because i would like to see what might result in me covering a room in these cups. I haven’t decided whether they might be arranged in orderly rows or in the flowing manner of my previous arrangments. I have a feeling it’s goint to be the latter and I cannot wait to see what happens!
I am going to need perseverence to sustain and achieve this, though the steps I have to take are simple.
