Diabetes Symbol
For my grid art I created the diabetes symbol using expired and or used diabetic supplies that I had. I thought that it was be cool to create the symbol out of supplies used for the disease it is advocating for. My reference image was used as more or less a general guideline and so the final product looks pretty different. I started off by making an actual grid on a poster board using yellow sticky notes that were about 2 x 1.5 inches - and after creating the grid I ended up cutting it to a size where it fit snugly inside a flat box (for safety and movability reasons). The art itself was constructed outside of the box. The first three rows were made by glueing down lancets; the next row is a combination of lancets and transfer guards; the row after that are all needle housings; and the final rows area all pen needles. I painted the lancets that make up the blood drop in the center red, although it dried into a sort of magenta. And I painted the second and third rows blue because the symbol is a blue circle - but I liked the contrast of the white which is why the first row of the circle I left alone. I had not originally planned to use so many different materials/ supplies but in the beginning of constructing it I over estimated how many lancets and transfer guards I had and ended up having to find more supplies (of similar size) that I could use to fill up the entire grid I had cut out.
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