Chloe Shin
Full Circle
Class of: 2029
Major: Product Design BFA
Medium: Printed scanned images of painting and photography.
Faculty: Linnea Paskow
Prompt: Create 50 circles by hand and 50 circles digitally. Each circle must be created differently. Do not use color or digital interface. Employing your knowledge of Gestalt Principles and Layer Masks in Photoshop find ways to build an image that interfaced both the digital and analogue. Keep all your circles in some form.
I chose to organize the circles using the Fibonacci sequence to emphasize how circles can be found everywhere, like how it is seen frequently in nature. I started from the smallest circles, which were 100 pixels tall, to the biggest circles, which were 3400 pixels. I also decided to place all the drawn circles on the left side, mirrored by the images of circles on the right side, to highlight how circles that can be created by hand can be seen in real life on camera. I focused on similarity to organize the circles with all the circles being symmetrical to a horizontal line across the middle. Each time I added a smaller circle above a larger circle, I picked a circle that contrasted in value or edited it to do so to emphasize the edges of the circle. I also chose to place the two largest circles in this way to create a continuous path of smaller circles in the horizontal line down the middle.