Final steps for Independent Project

What a day!!!! Who would think so many problems would present. Anyway I think it is done. It is not perfect because the 'Jack in the box' keeps springing backwards and I was hoping to make it fall forward and unravel the images. Have tried re-weighting the box, shortening the material at the front, tying springs together to shorten them so they are weighted forward.......all sorts of things but it just refuses to fall forwards. Had to turn the images around so that as they spill out towards the back the images are right side up.

The only way I can see this problem being overcome is if I actually had a special spring made that folds inside itself when compressed. If I choose to progress this idea in future it is something I would need to give more time to but right now I need to hit the books for art theory this week.

Will upload images I have just taken

Making a Jack in a Box

This is a little more challenging than I thought but then isn't everything. I have spent the whole morning just sewing the lining and sorting out the step by step process of how exactly I manage to contain everything in the box without it all coming apart but still looking neat and fun.......The first job was to actually put a catch on the box on the outside. That needed to be done before the spring went in. The spring needed to be attached to a bottom plate which is then glued to the inside bottom of the box. The lining had to be sewed to the right length to go over the spring . The lining will have to be glued inside the bottom section of the box. I need to attach the photos, which are to be concertinered from the box, to the cloth and spring in such a way that they come out OK and right way up......all fun and games but getting there.

Independent project images

Jack in a Box

Independent project

At last have finished choosing and mnipulating images for the "Jack in a Box". Will download copies of the final 12 selected. I have used a variety of John Howard faces to superimpose over the faces of refugees placing him in their 'shoes'.- situation, some seeming totally incongruous for the situation but others using his more 'reflective' image.

The Spring for the Jack in a Box has proven far more difficult to find. I have been to tip shops, op shops, sports shops, auto wreckers, bed makers and furniture builders, craft shops, marine shops etc and lots of them. The bottom line is that the type of spring I need is not made anymore. It needs to be tall but able to be compressed into the box. Most springs available or seen are tight, small and designed to expand under pressure not contract under pressure.

Looked at agricultural pipe , vaccuum pipe or anything which may compress but none were suitable. I THEN FOUND AN OLD TV ANTENNAE where the wire coils around the horizontal arm. I think it will work...........................so back to the box I have found, painted the top to make it look like the deck of a boat and a lock so it will stay closed. Images have been printed today so now it is a matter of trying to put it together and hope it works.......