Umbrella Skeleton Foot

For my project I decided to make a foot. I was inspired by the anatomical pictures we saw in class and while I was thinking about objects in my room I saw my old umbrella, and that's what made me decide to make a foot. I cut off the waterproof fabric from the umbrella and I was left with the metal skeleton, which reminded me of spindly spider-like things, phalanges and skeletal structure in the foot. An example can be seen in this picture:

While I was opening and closing the umbrella it reminded me a lot of toe curling or other foot movements like everyday walking and activities like dancing, where people can point and flex their feet. I'm only making one because I didn't want to destroy my good umbrella.

(** not my umbrella!**)

For this assignment, the inspiration mostly came from the materials I already had lying around. I've decided that I don't want to make it realistic but rather take a technological or maybe robotic like approach, and leave it in its cold metallic state, like bare bones. I sort of want to make it seem uncomfortable (which I might show when I demonstrate in class, so I won't discuss it here). I'm going to a hardware store tomorrow to see what I can use as a base as well as what other materials I can add on to it to keep it feeling the way I want it to.

Materials:
- only the skeleton of an umbrella, so far.