EXPLORE CREATIVITY - 27/9/11

Paper Folding - Rule Based Art

For this session we had a guest lecturer in, Clare Qualman who taught us about rule based art, firstly creating 'nets' by writing our own set of rules from a given shape in my case a triangle from which we then had to continue adding one of our rules each time.

My rules were:

• ADD A SQUARE
• TAKE A SEMI-CIRCLE
• ADD TWO SMALLER TRIANGLES

Not the most complicated or adventurous rules i admit!... but i really struggled to get my head around putting the concept together!

 figure 2                                                                                                                         figure 5



 The next step was to trace a selected few, cut them out and begin creating small 3D sculptures

I scaled figure 10 (above) up to see if i could produce anything more interesting.

Independent Study - 1/10/11

To challenge myself further in my own time i created another set of more complicated rules to achieve a more exciting outcome.

start:  TRIANGLE

• ADD A CIRCLE
• ADD TWO SQUARES
• MAKE A THREE CM CUT INTO ANY SQUARE
• ADD A CYLINDER
• MAKE A FOLD

        FIGURE 6                

                 FIGURE 7               

    FIGURE 10              

Im glad I redid the task in my own time as i feel it made me understand what was being asked more, I found this process very interesting but very challenging, i enjoyed the fact that shapes for garment designs can come from a very academic way of working.