'Dialogue'
This week I have been collaborating with Hannah Woodley; another glass student, working on a project where we restricted from using our specialist subjects, and the title we were given was 'dialogue'.  We were thinking about the idea of dialogue and where you might find it; and decided to try and alter the dialogue of a book. We started to think about the way in which we use books and how we interact with them; often this includes comfort; which led us to furniture. 

 Above are some examples of how we were experimenting with the books themselves, creating a dialogue between maker and material. We really loved the "box" composition and began to think about how this could be included into the furniture.  

We drew a rough idea of a small Ottoman on Google Sketchup and then began making. We allowed the materials to lead us; finding fabric to match the colour scheme of the book and using some of the pages from the book to cover the inside of the Ottoman. 

The Final Outcome