Sketch of Box

Today I went to Home depot as my plan and got a wood board for $10. Mr. Glendon promised to help me to cut it into pieces on this Tuesday night. Above is the box blueprint with length and width noted. I am still thinking about whether I should put the setting vertically or not to put into a human figure.

There is another issue with the door setting. I am still figuring out how to fit a potentiometer into the door frame, how thick the frame is supposed to be, and how to make it look natural...

And I also thought about the human figure sculpture a little bit. I found more parts of mannequins on line. Perhaps I can get some to build it sooner.



I am thinking maybe I can build my sculpture on this kind of stand to make it free-standing and more durable.
However, making a human sculpture lets me feel that the original meaning has been distorted. Putting the interaction into a sculpture would draw a line between the viewer and the object which makes the viewer thinks it is another person's door that he is opening and closing. But what I want he to experience is to treat the door as his own exit toward outside world, and to feel like he is deep inside a room or a body.

How can I make he feel that way? Create a sealed and dark space? Or make a fake wall with this tiny door on it as the only exit? Then how about the human characteristic? Make a wall with sunk shape like a human figure? Or just draw a blurry shadow of human on it?

Because Taipei Cultural Center is not open to dig any hole into the wall and ground, I have to make a completely independent thing that is durable to interact with and easy for the manager to operate the computer everyday as well. So I would like to make it smaller and flexible to place. If it is a human sculpture, I have to make sure it is stable and stands firmly. If it is a fake wall, I have to make it harmless to the environment. It is very difficult for me on both the form and the implement parts...