Khim: Container Updates # 2

[Continued from last time]

I tried several more methods to experiment on more kinds of patterns (now involving colors as well):

From left to right,

Hale's Blue Boy Red Sala-Flavoured Syrup

Coffee x 2

Coca Cola

I dipped 5.0 x 3.0 cm piece of Chan-Ooy into each liquid and keep them submerged for 26 hours.

And here are the results:

- For the second sample of coffee, I scratched the strip with dull cutter blades;

it gave out a crumbling effect.

I was initially planning to apply these methods into making bandages for the mummy mouse, but it turned out that the dried Chan-Ooy is not flexible enough to do multiple wrappings over the object, and happens to crack when I tried doing so. So this idea is dropped out.

I tried applying lotion to the Chan-Ooy piece as well;

Its skin slightly shines a bit, but no obvious changes has occured other than that.

However, yesterday, I managed to get hold of a sufficient supply of Korean Clay.

I would like to develop the tomb container a bit more, and instead of going back to do a similar tomb container, I decided to involve Chan-Ooy into this as well.

During the times I was waiting for Korean Clay to arrive, I discovered a Japanese Origami technique called "Tato". The completely folded piece of paper looks flat, however, when pulled, it expands into a "space", or more likely a box without a cover. I tried folding 3 of them using diffeent kinds of paper:

From left to right,

A4 Paper (cut into 15 x 15 cm.)

White Drawing Paper (cut into 30 x 30 cm.)

Chan-Ooy (cut into 30 x 30 cm.)

Chan-Ooy is a bit hard to deal with since you can't simply fold it down, but instead you'll have to slice lightly with a cutter knife to bend the paper into the desired direction. (After several failed attempts I managed to get its cutting pattern right, so the problem is now solved.)

This is how Tato works:

I plan to put the mouse inside (with the bandages, but as of now I haven't completed the bandages yet) and make a cover for it. However, the shapes would not be as shown. I'm thinking about making it a "flat touch pad" when folded (meaning that its outward appearance will look like a touch pad when remain flattened; this is done by additional attachments added to the Tato), and when you pull the tabs, it expands to show a blank space. The mouse would be placed there to imply that it has been "devoured" by the existence of the touch pad.

With the bandages, instead of using fabrics like the previous one, I plan to use this:

It's a printable transparent plastic sheet. Using a pen tablet, I will draw the mouse of the past (starting from the first one in 1964) and print them on the transparent sheet.

When overlapped, due to its transparency, the pictures will also overlap each other as well. This catastrophe shows that when the mouse dies, its history dies along with it; no one even minds what the mouse looks like in the past, thus the "messy overlapping history" that you couldn't even distinguish one from another, for no one cares about it anyway.

I've also made a combination of Koreasn Clay and Chan-Ooy Tato.

This one is made up of Chan-Ooy with Korean Clay applied on top of it for elasticity.

These are the ideas I've got so far.

There're several things I'm still not sure what I should do:

Should I use Korean Clay for the Touch pad Tato technique, or should I use Chan-Ooy?

And if I use Korean Clay, can I apply white Korean Clay for the patterns on top of it? Or is it better to keep its outward appearance plain and simple?