For this project I thought of matches when I was told to make a Dwelling, it's wooden like a house and I could do so much with it. I knew from the start I was going to have at least one house lit on fire, to give it a burned look. I had no idea how many I would make but as I started drawing it out I got an idea on how many. I wanted to stack some of the houses on one another, to really show the meaning and to show off the houses all together instead of stacking them side by side. I wanted the message for this to show that there are broken homes even in the best of neighborhoods. You don't have to live in the slums to come from a broken home. So I made sure that some two of the houses are perfect, the middle house will be completely burned and then the other two houses will be partly burned to show that a home can easily break, you don't have to be born into it.
The process for this was absolutely dreadful, finding a way to hot glue tiny matches together was awful. Especially when you decide to pre burn the matches for the one house they crumble under your grip, even the softest of grips. Burning all the matches stank up the house, because some of the matches had to be burned all the way. Getting them to stick together I ended up taking parchment paper then used hot glue putting a strip of glue down then set the matches down side by side. I had to work fast before the hot glue turned cold. Then the glue peels right off and I have a strip of matches for a wall. Hot glue is hard to work with using such a small median. I ended up burning myself twice which hurt, but I stuck through and got all the houses done. Making the roof was the second hardest part because I had to put a support beam inside the houses to have a spot to glue the bottom of the roof in. Overall it turned out better than I thought it would.
The process for this was absolutely dreadful, finding a way to hot glue tiny matches together was awful. Especially when you decide to pre burn the matches for the one house they crumble under your grip, even the softest of grips. Burning all the matches stank up the house, because some of the matches had to be burned all the way. Getting them to stick together I ended up taking parchment paper then used hot glue putting a strip of glue down then set the matches down side by side. I had to work fast before the hot glue turned cold. Then the glue peels right off and I have a strip of matches for a wall. Hot glue is hard to work with using such a small median. I ended up burning myself twice which hurt, but I stuck through and got all the houses done. Making the roof was the second hardest part because I had to put a support beam inside the houses to have a spot to glue the bottom of the roof in. Overall it turned out better than I thought it would.
This is the finish piece!!!