We were asked to pick a chair, hat or.. something I can't remember... and were asked to take whatever we'd chosen and create a narrative piece out of it. I chose the Prussian and German helmet known as the Pickelhaube. I decided to create a book about WW1 as that was when this particular helmet was discontinued. I felt that the way the helmet was judged as too impractical symbolised the change from the jingoistic glorification of war to the modern concept of war as being abhorrent .
some initial sketches
I decided to make printy type things, scratching oil paint off a plastic plate and pressing it using a home-made cider press and a car jack
After doing that I refined them a bit on the computer
It ended up as a concertina book like so
