Three Forms Project
We started our Three Forms project with wire. Our goal was to take a cube and change it to be more dynamic. I started with thumbnails trying to brainstorm how to make a cube dynamic.
I did this by turning the straight geometric lines of the cube and making them organic. I also tried to make the corners different lengths so that the top horizontal lines appeared more diagonal than horizontal.
The next part of the Three Forms project was working with cardboard. We focused on texture at first. Playing with the cardboard to see what kind of textures we could create. Then we worked on thumbnails to see what type of form we wanted to build, as well as what kind of textures we wanted to use.
I went with a triangle shape as the base idea but then changed it slightly as I began to build. I bent one of the sides in a zigzag shape to add a bit of diagonal to make it a more dynamic form.
Lastly, we worked with plastic. The plastic we used was trash bags that we cut like fabric and stuffed like pillows. This was the form I struggled the most with. First I did thumbnails to see what kind of shapes I wanted to create.
I knew I wanted to do either balls or cubes stacked on top of each other staggered. Once I had
I did a T shape so that I could fold it like you do to make a paper cube. This worked well and the shapes held their form well. The hard part was keeping the smaller forms taped together. They stayed together well at first, but later on, when I attached my plastic form to the other two they kept falling apart. Because of this, I had to reinforce the shapes with more tape and they lost that original staggered look.
Once I had created all three forms the next step was to combine them in a dynamic way. I began to draw thumbnails, considering what worked in each piece and what didn’t.
I found it harder to use thumbnails during this stage. It was easier to play around with the forms and see in which ways I could make them more dynamic. I knew the bottom of my wire form was still very square and that made it seem very grounded so I decided to not use it as the base of my final form. Instead, I used it as the middle piece tilting it so that the bottom was no longer grounded.
For the base, I turned my cardboard form on its side and used that as a base. I did this so none of the wire would be grounded and also so that no matter what side you look at you can see a texture ensuring you have something dynamic to look at. The plastic form I twisted a bit so it had an arch and placed it so it hung over the cardboard form and in the wire form. By hanging it, it ensures it’s not grounded as well as adding an implied line for the viewer’s eyes to follow.
