Monday, 29 November 2010

Stage 9 in the Metamorphosis Seminar

Stage 9 is all about straight edges; the crystalline form - water turned to ice, so to speak.
























I was surprised how much I enjoyed this form. Straight lines and sharp angles isn't a language I use very often, if at all. There was something very liberating about this, in that it's very logical: you simply have to picture in your mind where/how the plane of the triangle would continue as it disappears into the adjacent triangle/prismoid.
It's hard to believe looking at these images, but this form started off from the archetype saddle plane of Stage 1. I then slowly began to stretch it in two directions, whilst focussing on creating sharp angles and straight lines.
A 'universal' geometric form ...? (cf. Piero della Francesca)

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