If you’ll remember, I said at the end of this post that there was more to the assignment.
1. I had to find a shape from within my three doodles. The most obvious to me was the series of fibonacci proportionate circles, six of them.
2. I had to construct the 2D shape out of some kind of material. I’m cheap (and a little obsessed with the possibilities of paper), so I picked cardstock. We were all required to construct four instances of our shape. I cut out the 24 circles separately.
3. Next, we were required to… play. “Get in the sandbox,” experiment, look for cool ways that the shapes could go together. We even had a class session dedicated to this process – we all came in our pajamas and brought breakfast. We also brought every childhood construction toy we could lay our hands on! Then we got on the floor and played.
After trying lots of different things, I found out that my 24 circles fit perfectly into this configuration that I really liked. The point is, I couldn’t have planned this result and worked towards it from the beginning – there are some things that we discover only by being brave enough to experiment and fail!
4. I taped my circles together, colored them with permanent marker, and then used to wire to float the smaller elements a few inches in front of the large one. It turned into a very stylish wall hanging!
My bubbles.