Instruction
From your written iterations. begin progress on construction of your ideas relating to volume.
Purpose
Continue to develop drafting skills as well as an exploration into pattern and space as well as scale within pattern and how that impacts overall composition of your pieces.
My Interpretation
For volume, I wanted to explore the “warped heat wave” idea as much as possible. I played with the concept of having various levels of “wiggle” (some more sharp, some more smooth), but the size of the pieces all set at the same zig-zag pattern width created varying levels of “wiggle” in itself. The thicker and larger pieces ended up looking more smooth than the thinner pieces, allowing a relatively nice and smooth transition from the very sharp head zig-zag to the relatively smooth body zig-zag. Each piece has ten different sizes of the same shape, but the head has a total of 30 pieces, the thorax has 45, and the body has 60. This also gave the piece a slight verticality increase that makes it more interesting to look at. Unfortunately the craft process was tedious and less than fun, so by the end of the construction of the body piece, some pencil and glue marks found their home on the surface.