Dot/Line

Rejection

Lines Two Dots

Comfort All Dots

For the second piece, I chose the characteristic of rejection. I used two lines and two dots. I showed rejection by blocking the black dot by it’s own color line from the gray dot and gray line. I did this because I felt with what’s going in the world with racism and media bias, I felt two different colors rejecting each other represent rejection pretty well.

For the final piece, I chose comfort. I used all dots. I felt patterns are calm and comforting which I showed in the color and dot patterns I put above. I also felt this pattern wouldn’t go with any other characteristic other than comfort as well.

Gestalt is being able to perceive something more than how it generally is. Gestalt relates to this project because we are taking dot/line compositions and trying to relate it to words that are bigger than just a dot and a line. We are perceiving it as greater than it looks to be. Making a well crafted object isn’t necessarily difficult, but I would say it takes multiple attempts and multiple mistakes to get it well crafted. I would rather make it more well crafted and spend extra time because it should be something to feel proud of.

This project changed my idea of abstraction by helping me find more creative ideas and realize more of the background that goes into creating an art piece and also generating more imagination to perceive what you want it to. It wasn’t difficult to represent my ideas, but I can easily see how it can be if someone doesn’t understand your take on it. I feel this way because of some feedback I heard and realized if I did explain it, then they might understand it more. I would use this exercise during other art related activities, use it to expand my imagination, creativeness, and maybe for a future job.

For this project, we had to handle a lot of text. We took how letters look, and are formed to find the meaning. For this project, we had to carve out letters, and take ink and roll it. Afterwards, we placed the letters in the ink and placed them on our paper to form the word that we wanted. We did this by hand to get a better understanding of how negative space impacts how a word is interpreted.

If you look at the images on this page, I chose the word fire, and tried many different variations of the word fire. Above are my work in-process of this project. I tried many different forms until I got the ones I liked. After I got the ones I liked, I had to let the ink dry. After letting the ink dry, I had to clean it up. It looks a little bit messy, so I had to use a printer to cover up some of the excess ink that smeared. After getting these nice and clean, I then used the copier to produce some cool edits in my work. Down below you can see my final work, and how much better it looks then the stuff above.

For the first work, I crumbled up some paper, put it on the copier, and left the lid open to get the cool effects that you see. The goal here was to show a paper after being in a fire all burnt and distorted to represent what happens during a fire. Things just get messed up.

For the second work, I cut a flame out of paper and placed the word fire in the flame.. The goal here was just to have a cool design for the word fire, while being in a flame. For the third work below, I cut the letters out and dragged them down the copier to have a cool play on the word fire. I did this to show the meaning of the term “fire” , the new slang term we use nowadays.

Now on to my last work, it is a basic form of the word fire with no edits. I made this one because I wanted to show the cleanliness from some of the work in-process.