Xerox Project

Grid Art Project

Wow, this project taught me a lot about being too ambitious and planning ahead...

For this assignment, I decided to make a multimedia piece with wood and chewing gum. I went to the store and got a 32 x 32 piece of wood and exactly 900 pieces of gum (which ended up not being enough because the proportions in the bags were off). I then came home and drew a 30 x 30 grid on the wood and began sticking gum on it according to a pixelated drawing that I made in photoshop.

I was doing fine until maybe the second line (60 pieces) and I became very sick of this project. The flavor of the gum was fake and starting to gross me out, but I was determined to finish it.

It was somewhere around the 200th piece that this project took a turn for the worse. Despite me brushing my teeth obsessively after every chewing session, disaster struck in the form of a broken filling and an excruciatingly painful cavity. After visiting the walk in dentist (who INSISTED I not chew another piece of gum for a long time) I decided to enlist the help of my friends. With the help of about 6 other people, We made some good progress, but the project is far from finished.