Hug + Blanket = Hugket

For CFC (context, form, concept) I've mapped a hug for our place mapping assignment. I wanted to get at the warmth, security, and enveloping love feeling you get from a good hug. I did this with a blanket (they don't call them security blankets for nothing).

The Hug Blanket

As I posted before, the whole idea was two separate people coming together. So I (rather literally) put two people on the blanket, their silhouettes that is. They are of course, myself and Kara (my fiancee). I hand sewed the cloth silhouettes onto the blanket, this took forever and I'll think twice about doing it again. But the final product was much more successful I believe because I took the time and the imperfections associated with hand crafted works. I chose the color red to represent love and passion. I mean, do you buy yellow roses for the woman you love or red?

When the person interacting with my hug blanket piece wraps themselves in the blanket they bring the two sides together thus bringing the two bodies together to form one body. I don't have pictures of people in it, my classmates took some pictures, hopefully I can get some from them to illustrate it being experienced.

I presented the piece today in class and had a critique, I think they for the most part liked it. I think I was successful in getting across my feelings for the place, what I found to be important about at hug. Maybe it was because other people picked places that were not supper important to them or places hard to define, but I feel that mine was one of the most successful.

Justin Finkmaster Flex (his nickname, I'm not even sure of his real last name, Finkleman I'm pretty sure), did a piece that I was really quite impressed with. The link on his name goes to his blog posting of his project. He did being scared out of your mind at a police station (being scared for being in trouble). It was really well done and I really felt uneasy and felt his anxiety and tunnel vision with the way he projected the animation and the sound. I just realized that it's actually me looking into the tube on the last picture. Sweet.

At any rate, A few more of my piece being put together.

Pinned down, waiting to be sewn.

Close up of the stitching (all done by hand).

Thanks for looking!