Theme Project :)

Since my theme dealt with isolation, I wanted to have one focal point, “a person” to be the representative of being isolated. My curvilinear project depicts the outdoors with rolling hills and open skies. In the far right lower corner is a man standing on the edge of a cliff.

For this project, I begun with cutting out the foot hill by tracing the ones I had sketched on the paper and applying that to the green paper. After that was done, I took the lightest blue paper I had and made that the sky (cutting a portion off, seeing as I didn’t have enough sky to space the whole page). Then I cut out other blue designs to pattern the sky. Then I cut out the cliff and placed it in the corner .

I learned that mistakes/brief incidents of inspiration are good, and that making them can help improve your project and can place the final touches on it.

In my rectilinear project, I wanted to present isolation by showing how one person is isolated from others. I made it appear that a group of people are in one room, and in the other is the lonesome person. The other people are also grey, showing that they are away and in the background.

For this project, I wanted the “person” to appear isolated, so I made him appear as if he was entering another room of some sort. I drew around 45 angles around the 4 corners of the picture. Then I took paper and created walls, a ceiling and a floor. For the negative space left over I just used white paper. As I glued all those down, I put and pasted rectangular figures to represent people. The people were place on the negative space to show that they were separated from the person of isolation (I also made a “person” out of yellow paper to show that he was different). Then to complete it, I placed 4 “windows” to show that the person was in an enclosed space.

During this project, I learned that a point can be driven through simplicity. I didn’t use to much detail, but I believe it still is very effective in communicating my theme.

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