Organic Beauty

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us // Iris Murdoch, A fairly Honorable Defeat

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms // Ikkyu Sojun

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

Discovering the magic of doodling was quite fun and rewarding. They are the ‘masterpieces’ of my doodling works in this challenge.

This project was about exercising the principle elements of design (unity, balance, emphasis, etc.) If you are interested in making it, the task was to make 2×2 squares, doodle random things into the squares; make photocopies of the squares, reduce them to 1×1 (by 50%), cut, arrange the squares into three 8′ x 8′ compositions that illustrate – bilateral symmetry, Asymmetry, and Radial symmetry.

the work in progress

PIECE#1  —  BILATERAL SYMMETRY
an image of which the two cut halves along a central axis are mirror images of each other

PIECE#2  —  ASYMMETRY
an image of which the two cut halves along the central axis are not mirrored each other. A lack of balance or symmetry

PIECE#3  —  RADIAL SYMMETRY
a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts from the central point