For this project we worked in groups of 4, creating forms of the Morse code. Each group was given a sentence in Morse code which needed to be translated. "The task of art today is to bring order into chaos." After translating the sentences we all had to agree of the forms we were going to produce, which all had to be identical. We decided that our theme was going to be space, therefore we decided to create stars, planets and space ships. Each form represented a bit of the Morse code. 

We created 57 slotted stars for the dots, 10 gold planets for the slashes splitting words and 50 coloured clay space ships. In order to make them all identical we used the same stencil for each star. We had to produce 114 of them. We used a Stanley knife to cut them out of cardboard, after this time consuming process we painted each star silver, then we slit each about half-way down the middle and slotted them together. The planets were created using origami balls, after all 10 planets were created I was entrusted with the hot glue gun and the duty of turning them into Saturn. To achieve this I painted each gold, for the ring around the planet I used art straws to create the rings. I measured each straw at 30cm each, then flattened them out to make the rings. After using masking tape to connect the ends I painted each straw gold. I used the discarded bits of straw to create a support network for the rings. To do this I hot glued the support straws to the ball then hot glued the rings on.  

We made 50 space ships out of coloured clay to represent the dashes in the code. In order to make sure they were identical we measured the circumference of the base at 7.5cm and made all the bases at once, we made these out of yellow clay. For the top of the space ship we used green clay and made little balls, about the same size which we then attached on top. Clearly, we miscalculated our ships as one escaped the studio and ended up on display in college.   

The forms had to joined, creating the original Morse code message we received. To do this we decided to hang them up on a piece of chicken wire. To do this we put a whole at the top of each star and using jewellery wire we tied them on accordingly. For the planets we attached some of the jewellery wire to9 the ring and then on to the chicken wire. For the planets however, we couldn't use wire, instead we grabbed more clay and added it to the base, around the chicken wire.  

Unfortunately, we ran out of time to attach each form to the chicken wire, in which case we got a box to stick them on. We continued the Morse code message on to the box, making it look like the code is bleeding down the box.