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.

Cellphones and Sticks II

Next installment of the stick and cellphone drawings, from the 16 and 16 before we had to create thumbnail drawings, 64 for the cellphone and 64 for the sticks. I did not photomerge this time so you only see a few of the 64 that actually exist. (And this is were I started to run out of sharpies)
After the two 64 thumbnail drawings came the 32 thumbnail drawings of both the stick and the cellphone parts coexisting with each other in each panel. These exercises were to get us to simplify over and over again.

Unity Project

The newest model in the Unity project. The point of this project is to assemble anything we want with 12 bamboo skewers, 12 planes of 4x6 Bristol board, and rubber cement as a binding agent in the project. While figuring out ideas we also constantly keep unity in mind. As the picture shows, I went a more organic and curvilinear shape rather then geometric and angular. After first creating it out of frustration of a previous idea I realized it looked alot like Christmas ribbon candy, so that became my precedent.I'm hoping that this precedent can help me to progress my project othen then with use of color since we were told to avoid color. For now my things to work on include craft of the paper and rubber cement and trying to decide if the project should be tilted on an axis to represent the idea of gradation or on its side to represent the idea of level.

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Cellphones and Sticks

The first installments in Suzanne's rotation started Friday and was for homework if we didn't finish...

"Box" for Twelve Twigs Final

Final pictures of my final project of a "box" for twelve twigs, completed after the critique on Friday September 26th. Now onto the next project of Understanding Unity!

Class on Tuesday September 23

Beginning exercise for Tuesday went from drawing objects to people contours, but not only the people you see first in front of you, but also those behind them to practice perspective. It was suggested to draw at least 3 to 4 people but I ended up doing about 8 in my process of using up all the time. I focused on how the people were sitting and positioned.

The work above was homework from the previous class as we started orthographic drawing, still working on perfecting photo-merge since this was a big piece of paper, I'm getting better at it though. :)


To go along with our homework from the night before we worked exercises in the book by seeing only two sides of the views and having to create the last side and the figure itself. Its challenging but fun all at the same time trying the visualize the picture within.

"Box" for Twelve Twigs Process

So despite what I said previously about my cube morphing into a Pyramid in the precedent post it has gone back to being a cube after the positive feedback at interum critique. This was an iteration where I tried making the twigs more uniform rather then just sticking them every which way randomly, I made them kind of into a staircase pattern with the fungi ridden twig in the center of the arrangement. For the top view of my project I decided to play around with light on the twigs by cutting a hole in the top of the cube to give the twigs a sort of spotlight to enhance showcasing them. I agree with my instructors in that the biggest problem with my design in the poor craft, as you can see in the image the corners are rough and the cut-outs and folds are uneven. Also my binding agent (Rubber Cement) is not used purposefully in the project other then to just simply bind. It is not incorporated.


To enhance my project, I worked on several iterations of my shadow box-like form in various colors and exploring a new binding agent called raffia (Which is made of paper too.) It started with a cream color box to enhance the color of the broken part of the twigs and the fungi with a contrasting brown raffia, then I used black paper to make the spotlight pop with cream colored raffia, but in doing this one found the paper to be too weak and it sagged under the weight of the twigs. So instead I used cream colored paper again and colored the inner part of the cube black to play with lights and darks, I also did the same with the last iteration but with a dark green and a light green with dark raffia.