My first reaction to the paper was to cut it; I feel very uneasy at the thought of the amount of paper that Dale was unfolding and so cutting it seemed an appropriate action to take. As a group I think it is fair to say that we were overwhelmed and didn't quite know what to do with ourselves/the paper. I then proceeded to repeat the action of kicking the roll of paper until the floor was covered; my actions were very strategic compared to Becky and Lucy's approaches which seemed fairly spontaneous in structure.
Something that struck me as being most interesting was the noise the paper created. Once we had finished our introduction to the paper, Dale initiated a group action of lifting the paper into the air simultaneously, creating a parachute-like object. The noise reminded me of natural elements e.g. waves crashing against rocks or gale force winds; nothing like the noise you would expect a piece of paper to create. It is surprising that something so feeble can cause a noise of such impact.
One of the last activities entailed a group effort of gathering all the paper used previously and moulding it as one ball of paper. It was interesting to reflect upon the amount of paper we had used prior to the last activity as just one object; the transformation the paper took place in that short space of time emphasised it's durability. However, as an end result, the huge amount of paper juxtaposed with the fragile essence of how it was tied up using red string. Without this also feeble material, there would have been no foundations to hold the paper together.
I particularly like Dale's suggestion of having the last paper object in the corner with the video project displaying the process of creating the object as a piece. What does everyone else think?
-Alice O'Rourke
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