an overview of line compositions

we began very gently with simple line compositions. we had to make five each to communicate three "variables," which were regularity, progression, & randomness. this was an extremely painless piece of the project.

it resulted in things like:

 

 

 

(i'm going to take this opportunity to tell you that i built that progression composition off the fibonacci sequence, an idea i was really proud to have had.)

we were then mashed up with a partner (mckenzie, here's looking at you) with whom we combined all of our simple compositions into a pool from which to draw for the next step: complex compositions.

we were to pick one simple composition as a base, rotate it 90º, and fill its lines with other simple compositions still at their original orientation. still while expressing the three variables. from here on out, the work is completely collaborative, with no particular ownership.

here's some of the things we came up with, in the same order:

then. the final step in this part of the process was taking these things and making them angular and curvilinear using the copier, the scanner, and the projector.

this for instance is an angular line composition generated by projecting straight lines on a variety of angled surfaces all at once, i.e., stairs.

and this is a curvilinear composition made by teasing a scanner. i think it had fun.

our next step was to take a photosafari, and hunt for compositions like these (we have a 2 inch binder literally full of them) out in our real kansas city environment. [the way jamie talked about it made it sound exactly like pokémon snap... i dunno if anybody else remembers that game? it was so great.] so i walked down broadway from linwood to 43rdish (i turned around at streetside records) and then cut across to pennsylvania and walked back home to 34th. two miles of photographs! hopefully i have some that will be useful. 

(from the uptown theatre, broadway & valentine. anecdotally, my illinoisan boyfriend and i saw pavement there a month ago, that place is beautiful! also pavement was great.)

    (the kc life facade, broadway & armour. they own the valentine neighborhood in which i live.)

for monday i must match up 12 photos with 12 compositions to see how i'm doing with this next step. and what follows is, as always, a mystery.