60105 // Project 1b / 3D Abstraction (Final)

Chronological Transformation of my mockups! From lines and planes, to just everything, to a final centralized form.

Here is the final product. At first I hung it parallel to the cube frame, but to make the composition more interesting, Mr. Qhawar cut off a string to give it a tilted angle... personally as someone who likes order, I preferred the original but this is not bad either, as I get to appreciate my work from a different angle.

Hello! To conclude Project 1b, here is the blogpost you've all been waiting for. This is my abstract artwork inspired by the Bee colony and Peter Eisenmann's houses. To be honest, I didn't draw any plans or accurate sketches to design the sculpture, all I did was measure the modeling board pieces as I stuck it together, and every measurement has some sort of relation to one another, like a Mondrian artwork, but in 3D.

Sans Titre (Untitled), Piet Mondrian, 1925. The father of Neoplasticism.

The formal organization of this abstract sculpture is centralized (as it is centered around a cubic volume) and clustered (with the additions and extrusions occurring around the form.) There are many design principles, and the main ones are transformation (as it is no longer a cube but a complex form) datum (as you can still see a cubic outline) and hierarchy (in terms of design and segments, inspired from the beehive and colony.)

Let's have a look at the various angles of the sculpture:

The front and back view of the final sculpture before it was properly suspended from the frame.

Work In Progress shot. It only had 5 main faces stuck to it but already had the cube form. I like how it already possessed a certain complexity of itself during an early stage. You can observe extrusion, addition and subtraction from the front faces of the sculpture.

Plan view of the sculpture. I love how shadows play with the various forms of the sculpture. You can also notice a smaller cube protruding out of the bottom of the sculpture to make it less rigid looking to give it an unusual composition.

Pictured below are the various elevation view of the final abstract sculpture. A lot of people told me it looks like a house, and it sort of does because it's inspired by a house (a beehive = bee house and the research I used were houses) (haha.) I am okay with that, I guess. At first I was nervous my lecturers might have qualms about it looking like a house, but I guess not! I was also nervous because everyone else had curvy and flowy sculptures, but it's good to be different, I've learned.