The Final Frontier

It's crazy to think about how we should have gotten all of this done by Week 13. 

At least, according to the initial brief anyway. 

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The one week extension helped us complete the project much more comfortably. For the first half of the final week, we were preoccupied with final submissions for two other subjects. From Wednesday onwards, it was all hands on deck to complete the whole installation. 

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On Wednesday itself we went over to the Sunway workshop to put the final “dirt” finishing onto our walls.   Poster design for the back walls came underway as well. To keep at it, some of us even stayed overnight at the Fabrication Lab to continue designing/writing and soldering (though mostly it was in solidarity of our fellow classmates).

We had a late start to Thursday from the previous night’s fatigue. We surveyed some prices for finishing materials like the table cloth and clothes basket, then we reviewed the final item and prop list for each of us to bring over for Friday night’s post mall-closure setup.

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Setup day. In the AM, we compiled all our props, bought the last of the material, and printed up all of our posters. From 9pm onwards, we were all whisked away to the Sunway Workshop in a flurry of adrenaline and kan cheong-ness. Once the mall closed up, and everybody’s things were carried over, we got to work setting up with much help from the Sunway Workshop crew.

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The structure was disassembled, then reassembled onto the exhibition floor. After the platform and walls were locked in, we began a lethargic start to putting in our wiring. Fast forward 10 hours later, at 8AM, we’re all done - though not without some quick soldering fixes, dance breaks, and quick naps. 

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