So for this week, after I had finished my crank project, we started to learn about atoms. I’ve learned a bit about them from videos, they were confusing and a bit hard to understand, really. We did do a short little example, the one with balloons, I noticed if we put the balloons to the cloth, it picks up these red circles, and when we put the ballon to the wall, the blue circles there tried to get away from the ballon. Why is that? I also noticed when I did that, the red circles stayed the same, I’m confused.

I’ve noticed that this crank that I built is like the cams we did the week before, the base is the same, but I’ve noticed that I’m getting better at cutting the shapes and giving enough weight onto my hand. It feels much easier than before, and I’m really glad about that. Although glueing was a bit hard, I always put a little bit too much glue… so I had to wait a long time for it to dry, even though I did other parts, I still got my hands a bit too sticky. Some parts are a bit bendy, they look like they’ve been squished a lot. Otherwise though, it’s an improvement from the cams.

So for this weeks projects, I feel like I’m really really bad at cutting the paper templates, the paper kept on ripping and I feel so frustrated with this project. Although we have a lot of these templates I’m feeling a bit good about the projects after this Cam, this one was especially difficult for me because when I usually do art, I do the tradition kind. Where you draw on paper or canvas, putting enough weight on my hand used to be easy, now I feel like my hand is veryyyy sore. I already made a few mistakes with which way I fold the paper. I reaallly hope the next few projects will be easier.