Week 4 - Shapes

Craft: The tools that I used for making the five compositions above were black, red, white, and burgundy paper. The purpose of this assignment was to create five compositions using 3 white shapes, 3 red shapes, and 1 burgundy square. the white shapes were meant to be organic shapes and the red shapes were meant to be mechanical shapes. Each composition utilized many different shapes made by my classmates, so all that I had to do was arrange them.

Concept: One of the hardest things to do for this assignment was to decide how I was going to arrange the shapes. Its deciding how well each shape works with other shapes. Two of the five compositions were made strategically, in a way that creates a scenario or forms recognizable shapes, such as the one that appears as though there is a flying horse or the leaning square on a thin tower. The other three compositions were merely done by throwing the shapes onto the paper and slightly adjusting them. I did it this way because I wanted to compare the difference in composition making when its organic making vs mechanical making. (unintentional vs intentional)

Composition: Each composition has at least one element that makes them different from one another but one thing they all have in common is that they overlap somehow in every composition. For some it was intentional , as for the others it was just coincidence. After carefully reviewing each composition side by side, I've realized that red is the most dominant and in a way, it takes away the effect of every other shape just because it draws the most attention.