Project 1 - Design Principles and Foundations

Three Sketches    

  In these pieces I wanted to represent how our energy can change and affect us. 

For this piece I focused on how we can mold to our environment. This can be both a good and bad thing. I didn't focus too much on if it were a good or bad thing, but used lifework to show that it can build up our thoughts, feelings, and character using the swirls and shapes getting smaller. I liked this way of representing our environment while also having organic shapes to represent nature. 

For this sketch I wanted to represent protecting your own energy and not letting other negative things impact your own light. I liked how detailed the lifework was but felt like it was missing something. 

 

For this piece I wanted to represent how our environment can affect us. I drew out a quick sketch of squares with lines going through to represent positive and negative energy. Some of the squares are filled while others are hardly touched. I wanted to reflect how some let the energy pass through them instead of linger and affect them. I believe that you can also listen to others without absorbing their negative energy, which is what I tried to show in the prominently white squares. 

The Final Piece

I chose to kind of represent all of those pieces into this one. I layered pieces of paper to draw your attention to them but also represent how they stand out from the crowd. Most of the glued on pieces are ripped which represents their desire or willingness to grow. The lifework is detailed to show energy passing through or consuming us. Though our environment may not be the healthiest, despite all the negativity we can push through and not let it consume us. We can be a positive influence on each other and our Earth, which is shown through the lighter marks. 

 Three questions:

- I was trying to make it look like lighter lines, almost white in certain areas. Were you able to identify that? How would I be able to improve on that?

- Is this a piece something you can look at for a few seconds or something that makes you think?

- What significance do you think the ripped edges has on the meaning of this piece?