Assignment#20: "Wrapped Object"

1. My first idea is to wrap a balloon in yarn, or some sort of string. I might also decide to wrap the balloon in newspaper. I want to do a balloon because I got balloons for my birthday and they are deflating, so now would be a perfect time to try and do that.

2. My second choice, if the balloon one doesn't work, is to wrap a little pot for a plant that I have. If I end up doing this I will probably wrap it so that a plant can still fit in it.

I discovered that wrapping something isn't as easy as it seems. I did a small balloon and I still had difficulties, I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to wrap these huge objects. I also discovered that these wrappings started when Christo began wrapping simple things around his house. My inspiration on this project, besides Christo and Jeanne-claude, was when I was a little kid and sometimes I would do an art project that involved wrapping a balloon with either yarn or newspaper. I found it difficult to wrap the balloon so that no part of balloon was showing. Also, when I finished with wrapping the top part, I realized that it would look weird if the stick holding it up wasn't wrapped, so I wrapped that too.