Process of Light

Here are some of mine and other classmate's paper experimentation. This was a fin exercise as I didn't know how much you could do with paper. It was interesting seeing other classmates and it inspired me to come up with some ideas.  

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Here is the very start of my project. At first I thought of having a tree with roots coming out of the bottom due to the required use of only paper. Then I thought that was kind cliche and one before. I started thinking of roots and trying to connect to me, personally. I annalyzed the true meaning of what are roots and what are my roots. I instantly thought of Chicago and then this idea played out. I was paired with Michael and if it wasn't for him, I would've created my project a bit differently and it might have been worse. He told me to put the skyline and the roots behind a piece of paper and we came up with this example. I liked how he cut out the skyline and for the roots he cut into them. It gave good contrast and I decided I definitely wanted to approach my project this way. 

Here is my more developed draft. The critique we had was very useful. I liked the box idea but someone suggested that it it come out of the wall and back into it. Also it was suggested that I leave more white space. I learned that roots should be cut differently not going into each other. I also wanted to create a layering affect with the buildings. 

Some examples of inspiration that I liked. 

The light I used.

Laying everything out after it has been cut. 

Almost complete!