“What is form?” “What is it that you see when you say form?” – The module started with this questioning of what we understood as FORM. Discussing our own definitions of form; something that takes up space in x, y, z axis; something that can be see with naked eyes perhaps, etc. Every single entity in this known living world has a form and this module aimed at exploring it a level or two deeper while using our own hands as a muse. Understanding form is a lot deeper and subtler process than defining it in the boundaries of what catches the eye.
We started the process through rigorous drawing sessions where we let the body discover its momentum while attempting to explore the intricacies of a human hand. This continuous practice of drawing can be thought of almost as if its an attempt to decode the form of a hand through the layers of it (like an onion). Drawing it in the way you think it formed rather than drawing it in the way you see it exist.
This construction of own’s own idea of a human hand then head-started the process of actually constructing that form through materials of one’s own choice. As I did this process for myself, I saw that I was understanding the form of my subject (the hand) through a series of planes and using that knowledge I tried to work with tessellation as a technique in constructing what I understood as the form of a human hand.
This module aimed at addressing the fact that form is not something that just exists in nature, it gets built overtime and nothing that goes into the making of a form is a mere coincidence. Every single aspect of any form that one works with or encounters is meant to be a certain way for it to come together and make sense.
The Journey of this hand:
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