It's gonna be a sculpture! No! A book! Wait, forget it. Zine. It will be zine!

My original idea of a sculpture has changed into a book with illustrations and then into a zine, so my original timeline is destroyed.

At first, I planned to make a sculpture with papier mashe, so it required from me to gain some knowledge on the topic, to get the needed materials. I’ve been making papier mashe in primary school, so I have some ideas about how it is done, but definitely don’t remember what amount of materials I need, and how exactly it is done. Plus, I don’t know how to make a human-like figure, since all that I have been doing was based on a balloon, which has a round form. I also should have figured out what to do with this huge sculpture after the semester. It would be a pity to throw it away, but I have no storage for it and obviously wouldn’t be able to move it to my home country. So these were some tasks I needed to solve even before making the sculpture itself. I also wasn’t sure if it would be easy enough or really time-consuming, so my timeline wasn’t that clear, but it definitely was possible to make it during the semester.
I also wanted to make a book with materials from my own survey, and with some scientific articles, I’ve found, so people would have an easier opportunity to read content on the sculpture.
Secondly, I wanted to create a book with illustrations. The idea was to make a book that would look like a parenting book and would be interesting for parents and teens to read. Also, lots of parents' books have illustrations as children's literature, so I find it really interesting, and thought it would be a fun detail, especially since punishments are the topic. I also wasn’t sure at first if it should be a comic book or a book with pictures. I guess the final idea was to make something in-between, and make some dialogue bubbles if needed, but to keep most of the text as paragraphs. I wanted to use all of the knowledge I had, to gain more, and maybe even contact some psychologists and educators and ask them for their opinion, and add their comments. To make the whole book as a dialogue between children, parents, scientists, teachers and psychologists. To provide different perspectives and opinions. I wanted to prove my point, but make it more as a debate, so each reader would be able to make his own decision, and so people who think about punishments as a necessity wouldn’t be negatively minded and defend themselves, and it would be easier to provide my point to them.
Lastly, I ended up on zine creation, since it isn’t that hard. I am not sure I can come up with the plot for such a huge project as a book. Zine, on the other hand, has various content, so I should think about several smaller tasks, then one huge task. I also think it gives me more freedom with the materials I gained from children since I can add them in their row form, write my opinion about them, redraw their drawings, make tests based on the result, and maybe make a comic out of one of the shared stories. It gives me much more freedom of interpretation, while still being one project. I am also really happy I got some discussions with my classmates, and some other students were making zines as well, so it gave me some ideas of what exactly I want my project to be. 

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