Marisha Aya Rorschach- week 2

Heya guys!

So here is my upload of all the things I have done and learnt over week 2 of this project and this entry of my blog will sort of be a reflection so hope you don't mind the length :)

Dominant

Balance

The two images above are from the charette we did early this week where one had to communicate the idea of dominance and the other of balance.

Through this activity, I wanted to explore whether it was necessary to have more of one than the other to create dominance and this can be clearly seen in the first image where even though the central dark form is 'smaller' and takes up less space than the surrounding negative white space, it is still the 'dominant' image. I understood that this works in reversal too, where even if the whole page was filled up with black, a small section of white would 'dominate' the final image. However, I am still very confused about what, in the case above, would be the 'positive' space and what would be the 'negative' space.

I tried to explore a similar concept in the 'balance' charette (bottom pic), however the question this time was whether you need 'equality' to create a sense of balance. Even though I did not complete this charette I was still able to answer my question through the activity by not only looking at my own image but that of others too. I found that a small dark space visually balance a larger white space.

Perhaps it is the illusion of depth naturally created via shading or filling in a form with black that balances out the large flat space of just negative white on the paper?
Even though its not clear we can kind-of see the evidence of this unequal balance in the image above.

charette- background, mid ground, fore-ground.

The series of images above are a selection from my primitive contour drafts. Initially, I found it quite hard to pick out the prominent geometric shapes in a drawing full of random curve and squiggles. And the drafts seen above are quite condensed and filtered down to just the basics which is evident when compared to my final contour drawing from last week.

The series shows a development of arrangement of shapes where I tried to create a striking contrast between the sharp hard lines and the softer curves of the circles I'm not sure whether the dominant angular lines take the focus away from the circular forms or whether they should be the focus to begin with. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

final primitive contour

Trial 3D shapes

This is my final 3D platonic shape I chose to work with which is an Octahedron. The shape allows for a greater number of vertex's which create a very angular look which I thought would compliment my primitive contour which is also full of very sharp angles when used to recreate this form on acetate.

A few trials of using my primitive contour to recreate the octahedron to establish which net system would work the best. 

This is another trial of using my primitive to recreate the 3D form but in this draft I wanted to add a fourth dimension (if you could call it that!) to the model. To do so I added a square piece (a part of my primitive) INSIDE the shape along the horizontal axis, so essentially it becomes two pyramids joint along the square face of each. (it is not very clear in the image, I'm sorry about that) I did this as I thought it would be very effective considering that the overall form itself was transparent, and by adding that horizontal plane INSIDE the shape would create a greater sense of depth where the observer would see contour lines INSIDE the form too, not just on the surface, but it was not very successful as it just ended up looking very muddled and confusing. :( But definitely worth a try!

Seen below is my final primitive-contour-3D form!

Sweet! Thanks guys! Please let me know what you think about the whole depth thing =)

-Marisha Aya