Cardboard Sculpture The form of the base is very organic which juxtaposes the geometric shape of the cube on top. The base has the natural color of the cardboard exposed whereas the cube is painted red. The base is made out of cross sections attached by notches, giving the piece an interesting sort of honey comb pattern. I created contrast between the base and cube through both form and color to highlight my chosen principle of design, emphasis. The tilted position of the cube along with the uneven waves of the base gives the piece a lot of movement. It almost feels as though the cube is rolling. The organic shape of the base was inspired by a topographical map.
My intention with the honeycomb sort of pattern was to create a satisfying piece. Taking inspiration from a topographical map, I wanted my audience to identify with the cube, as though they are sort of rolling along through the world, just going with the flow. I think that it's important to take responsibility for our choices but also to remember how little control we actually have over our circumstances and I wanted this to come across in my piece. I think that my method for creating the base was fairly successful, which kind of surprised me because I mostly designed it as I went along. There are so many different pieces of the map with so many different notches that had to all line up in all 3 dimensions which was very challenging. As you can see from the top view, the pieces didn't line up in a perfect grid of parallel lines, but they got surprisingly close considering that I was only measuring by eye. If I were to make something like this again I would use CAD to plan out the base before I started making the pieces.