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| Two methods of photographic deconstruction |
I really enjoyed this exercise, because even though the object I chose to take apart was very simple - as was the process itself - and didn't require any tools, I was able to apply a number of methods to show how it could be deconstructed. I particularly enjoyed the printing method (shown in "Mapping") as it was extremely simple, but I think the most effective way of showing the different components of the toy, and at 1:1 scale too. I then returned to more conventional methods of using a plan, elevation, axon, and exploded axon. But it is these drawings that really helped me understand how the different pieces went together. Because of these drawings, standard as they are, I had to really focus on the way the different parts hooked into and around each other to draw them and it was only whilst doing this that I really noticed the design of each of the individual pieces. There were so many points - through all the pieces - when I realised that the extreme proportions of the joints had been designed just to allow for the easily dismantling and putting together of the plane. And I learned this only through the examination of the pieces that I had to do in order to draw them repeatedly. Doing the drawings like the plan, elevation, and axon, really allowed me to learn how the designer had designed some joints to be aesthetic and others to be hidden away, and so I think it was very useful for me to do all the drawings I did in order to fully understand the plane as a whole and as its various components coming together to form the whole.
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