Erotic and Medium
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| How I define erotic |
As I defined erotic as something that is unreachable or
untouchable, I have to come up with something that is attractive to most of the
people. Bubble wrap is one of the things that I think most people can’t resist
of touching and squeezing. Others materials might also attractive too, but you’ll
be satisfied as you touched it. However, bubble wrap wouldn’t, the more you
touch it, the more you want to squeeze it.
Bubble wraps have very special properties, there are sounds
effects after you squeeze it, and this might be another reason why it is fun to
play with. Bubble wrap is firstly used for protecting things inside, but now
they are developed in to something else too. It could reduces stress in you.
From pictures above, there is an ingenious antistress station in a Milan bus shelter
consisting of bubble wrap sheets in three stress relief dosages: 3 minutes, 5
minutes, and 10 minutes.
Site Analysis
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| Elevator's elevation and perspective |
Elevator is the place where I hate in the faculty. I had a very bad experience about it. Being alone in the elevator is what I always wanted to avoid. Since bubble wrap could reduce stress and could create happiness, I would like this place to be the place where I feel fine to stay. It is also the place that you would have nothing to do, just wait. So, the installation could be something that you could play with while you are waiting.
Survey and Experiments
There are some experiment I did to find out how could I make the
bubble wrap itself become more attractive and make people want to touch or
squeeze.
Firstly, I surveyed people and ask for the bubble size they want to touch or squeeze most between 1cm and 2.5 cm diameter bubbles. Most people voted (30 people) for 2.5cm diameter bubbles because they are "rarer" and looks more fun to squeeze.
I found out that bubble wraps could be more interesting by putting colour into it since they are very plain. I came up with the idea of injecting colours into the bubble by inject needle in the top part of the bubble to prevent them from leaking (colours would come out if they are squeezed). This could make people do not squeeze them even they wanted to-erotic.
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| Injecting food colour |
Not every type of colours could be injected into the bubbles. I found out that after I injected water colour in, after a while they sink. I tried different types of water colour and finally came up with food colour which do not sink (totally blend in with water).
The First 'Reaction' Experiment
This experiment is mainly about colours, which colour is the most effective and what are reaction of people after seeing this experiment.
I injected each colour into one bubble in each bubble wrap (blue, green, red) and putting them side by side on the mirror in the elevator.
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| Left part of the diagram is before and after the experiment Right part of the diagram is how people see the bubble wrap in the exaggerated way |
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| Results, they are all squeezed |
The results came out, all bubbles with colour (no matter what colour) are poked and squeezed already. Bubbles with no colours was squeezed too, but not so many. Since the video showed that so many people react with bubble wraps, this means many people touched, tickled, or squeezed them.
The Second 'Reaction' Experiment
This experiment is totally opposite to the previous experiment. All bubbles are filled with colour except one of them. I wanna know whether people are going to squeeze it or not. Also, I want to observe how people react to bubbles with colours.
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| Left part of the diagram is before Right part of the diagram is after |
Result came out, bubble without colour is squeezed and other threes bubbles with colours are squeezed. Many people still react to it, but this one seems like people wouldn't want to destroy them.
Observation
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| Observation from the security camera, people would react with bubble wrap most when they are with friends , and mostly do not react with it when they are with strangers. |
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| Reflected Be Gentle and Be Rough |
From these experiment, people decided not to squeeze bubbles when lots of them are filled with colours no matter how much they wanted to. So, I decided to fill lots of bubbles with colour 'RED' since I think it is the most 'erotic' and the most attractive for me (From first reaction experiment, people did squeezed any bubbles with colours).
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| Experiment of putting bubble wraps in the elevator Bubble wraps' size is the same size of the mirror in the elevator |
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| Reflection |
Making Process
Injecting colours in
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