What's Your Square?

Something clockwork this way comes.

This is our second assignment since the self portrait. It was done over a span of two weeks with an in class activity, tutorial and finally, a presentation.

The assignment given required us to come up with a minimum of two paper cut outs. Each square had to be:

• at least 6" x 6"
• mounted on a minimum sized A3 board
• cut out using a blade, and no pieces were to be thrown away
• of a central theme with two artworks encompassing symmetry and movement

After spending a few minutes on the ideation process, I finally settled on my theme:

Gears!

We were instructed to do a test run and this is what I came up with at the end of the day. This artpiece reflected movement, but had a bit of an element of symmetry.

I then came up with these designs: A revision of my first artwork, and a mechanical butterfly.

Since I finished my assignment early, I created a title card for my artwork and a third cut out which had both symmetry and movement, but focused more on compositional balance and playing around with the fulcrum.

Here's my display! Credits to Farah :)

— Hidayah