27 March 2010

Fold, Space, Light

My beginning image was compiled from an assortment of squares cut from a photo taken at the farm. The process began with arranging the squares into a overall composition spaning the entire nine squares. After finding something visually pleasing and workable, I inverted the color to create ambiguous figure/ground. The purpose for this being to analyize the basic building geometry of the image.

Moment Two came from the understanding that that the mass of organic shapes, though complex, do not contribute to the DNA of geometry that I am searching for. That being said, Moment Two came from the rationalization and simplifying of form. By reducing the the unneccessary shapes and creating high contrast a more distinguished form or DNA is exposed.

Moment Three is what I would define as the bare bones or DNA or the image exposed as basic geometric shapes. With this moment or DNA an exploration into creating can be conducted.
Moment Four is step one into this exploration. The basic structure is constructed by folding up the squares to create a cube. More percisely, the middle cube was one side, the connected squares made up the other four sides. Lastly the top right square was places on the last empty side.The Fifth Moment is the Complex version or more developed composision of space and form. First I extruded the sides and pieces to set distances dictated by certain rules, such as, the end of another piece. Next, I introduced another cube into the center. the inserted cube is a replica of the original DNA (Moment Four). Lastly I lofted curves to create connections to the center cube from the outer structure.

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