Compare and Contrast "Unity Projects"

Today in our studio critique we discussed the elements of Unity in our “Understanding Unity” Project. Our task was to make a unified structure out of 12 4x6 Bristol board pieces and 12 10” bamboo skewers. We could not cut the paper and we could not cut the bamboo skewers.


My project was biased off unity via repetition of shape. The curves in my project are constantly repeated on the length of two bamboo skewers at an equal proximity, to give the project interest and motion I tapered the continuous curves to the very end of the sticks.


In comparison to my project, Katie’s “understanding unity” project was also biased of a curved shape, hers being more about circles then just regular curves. Both of our concepts of Unity had to do with repetition, mine in the pointed curves and hers in the circles within circles. Instead of being on a horizontal axis like mine was, hers was on a diagonal and supposed by a sort of base to keep its shape. Our projects also varied in scale in the concept of hers being more taller and longer and mine being more longer then taller.


Another project I picked to use in comparison to mine was Christy’s. Christy also used the repetition of a shape like I did but her shape was a geometric triangle rather then my organic curve. Her form was more about the triangles stacking upward while mine was about the curves moving the length of the bamboo skewers. Another difference is in the axis placement of the project, mine still being on a horizontal axis while hers was on a diagonal to keep interest in the unity of her triangles.