I accidentally sat on one of "cathedral" pieces and noticed how with a squint of the eye and a bit of imagination I could see the beginnings of a winged shape forming. I felt really inspired for the first time in this project and decided that would be an avenue i could really enjoy pursuing, so I started looking at different types of wing.
The feather formations are pretty similar in each of the examples above and can be simplified to one row of short feathers followed by one row of long feathers on each wing.
I started to adapt my "cathedral" mock-up a bit and soon had something that resembled wings:
I was pretty happy with this, but i just felt that the wings should be spread out more majestically rather than in such a swooping position. I made a few more prototypes varying the angles of the folds joining the longer "feathers" to the shorter ones before I finally had a net i was happy with. I then scaled the dimensions of the net up to suit A1 size paper and set about it with my scalpel.
Final Piece
This is the first full scale net I made. It took me over 2 1/2 hours to measure it out and score each individual fold (including the pleats, though you can't tell in the picture because I hadn't actually folded them in yet) and was just thinking how well it was going and how close to completion I was when I realised that I was following the wrong line to cut the feather tips, had ruined the whole thing (it is an exact science) and needed to start over. Damn.
But I got there in the end
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