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Assignment Seven
Two recipes, one written in the language of a personal trainer (workout), and one written in the language of a crystallographer (formula), describe your project in precise terms and serve as a set of instructions. (2 x 250 words, Arial 10 point on one 8 1/2 x 11)
The instructions are accompanied by a model sequence (4-5 instances in white paper or museum board, mounted on foam core 10 x 24) showing discrete steps of manipulation for one creature, c1. (Additional set for c2, c3 are optional)
Be specific about the properties you created by manipulating the material. Cutting in one direction allows a maneuver in the other etc. When cuts are not needed at a certain point, leave them out next time, or explore the spatial potential of those extra cuts. When material is unfolded and becomes flat your manipulations show, revealing a material logic. Later you might discover that the sheet and the creature both are beautiful, as flat and sculpted pieces respectively.
Draw the creature as well as its prepared material, showing how one emerges from the other. Reintroduce material thickness; inscribe 1/16, 1/4, 1/2 into the next set of three generative sectional drawings (pencil on vellum 12 x 24).
Probe, learn and improve the creatures'
spatial fitness
tectonic fitness
structural fitness
kinetic fitness
combinatory fitness
and build the third generation in basswood. Three models using basswood sheets of 1/16, 1/4, 1/2; limit 3x3x4.
Assignment Seven is due on Monday 2/20. Present recipes, model sequence, generative drawing and basswood models.
.: Jonas 2:00 PM
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