Restriction.Destruction.Restructure

Following the paper study, I began extracting and sketching shapes formed from light and folds. These 2 dimensional straight line shapes formed ever-changing perspectives within the small figures created, due to the lack of shading, or any other perceptive base. With no sense of perspective, I began to interpret them as letters, instead of shapes and so began to develop a series of ambiguous figures that could all be interpreted as letters in this same way.

I expanded the extracted figures into a full A5, ink pen, evolving, low-poly style piece from which I further extracted more smaller ambiguous figures whilst experimenting with a two tone shading method to further distort perceptions. This further exploration of this method of design led me to understanding the key to these shapes lay in the origins of the shapes; everything emerging from a single point.

I took advantage of this way of interpreting simple objects as more than they appear and decided to try and portray a message through this. To let people self-realise, rather than having an opinion forced upon them, I created 11 ambiguous figures, some of which could be interpreted in more than one way.

3 words can be realised from the piece: Restriction, Destruction and Restructure. These terms were inspired by my desire to notice restrictions, destroy them and emerge restructured. This is a process I have done a lot of in the past year to refocus myself in a new direction, towards visual design.

The final piece is an A3 ink pen straight line design.