Sketchbook
Finished Pieces
Reflection
The emotion I was tasked with capturing was “panic.” The composition that came to mind first was the asymmetrical one– the concept of an explosion of ideas, scattered thoughts, and the inability to hold them together really resonated with me. I wanted to capture the difficulty of making sense of things when you’re panicking, and the feelings that lead to panic. The symmetrical composition took a lot longer for me to think of– I tend to feel like panic is an asymmetrical emotion– messy and all over the place. In the symmetrical composition I chose to play around with waves of emotion in the first ring– a messy and overwhelming shape made from tangling pieces of wire that were manipulated to create the same shape– waves. Here I wanted to describe the way panic effects me– in surges at a time. I wanted the center triangle to represent self, and the piece overall to desribe panic that is more deeply imbedded within, rather than necesarily effecting those around us (that aspect being represented by the red circle on the outside.)
In the asymmetrical composition, line was less integral to the overall composition– instead the wire and lines were used to support each plane, and offer a less significant connection between each. I kept the wire thin to lead the viewer’s eye more toward each plane. By doing this I wanted to support the idea of confusion and disorientation. I made the use of wire more significant in my symmetrical composition, most notably in the wave pattern in the center circle. Here, I wanted the wire, rather than the plane, to represent disorientation and instability. In a way, the wave pattern is an extremely condesned version of my asymmetrical composition– ideas meld and crash into each other, creating that sensation of panic.