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Exploration of Figure Ground

Sketches:

I'll start by drawing a square or rectangle, and then I will choose a black shape to be placed on a white background. By reversing the figure-ground relationship for a more complex dynamic, I hope to demonstrate the metamorphosis of my selected geometry across six panels. My goal is to portray time, change, and motion while implying that transformative energy has an impact on geometry. The particular result made it possible for a complex geometry, a recognizable image, or other shapes. My goal is to compose something that shows a grasp of metamorphosis and imaginatively conveys a progressive change. I started by making a sketch and thinking about the shape's future development, how it expands, contracts, shift, or take on a different form. I worked with transparency, overlapping, size, cropping, and other methods to control positive and negative spaces. I want to evoke a sense of shifting and altering throughout time with the rotation, dissection, and fracture of the structure. Every panel should flow smoothly and dynamically.

Finial:

Panel #1: Pay attention to scale and proportion in this black geometric silhouette on a white background.

Panel #2: Started the transformation process by separating or exploding, moving and streamlining positive and negative shapes, and showing how they change from black to white and back again, as well as how the rationale behind the transformation emerges.

Panel #3: Continue the metamorphosis by fracturing off and focusing on the changing figure-ground interaction.

Panel #4: Continue to slice and develop, introducing the final form that the object will take on.

Panel #5: Further articulating the outcome while evolving from an undefinable shape to something defined.

Panel #6: Achieve the new shape and figure-ground connection articulation.

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