String blog

At first I was a little confused by the string activity, since the instructions were so vague; we were told to just do whatever with the string, as long as it was away from the computers. So when i grabbed the ball of string i just tied it to a stool leg and started dragging it around toward other chairs. I wasn't really planning or thinking about the designs at first, then eventually I began to experiment with some line designs and shapes, like making "X" shaped designs by repeatedly pulling the string around the chair. I decided it wasn't a great idea to get my string tangled in the giant knot forming at the other end of the room, so i continued to connect the string around a cluster of desk chairs, and then continued to create some more of the "X" shaped designs. Eventually I definitely saw the point of the activity and I undertood how it related to our study or lines and shapes, similarly to the artist who made the pictures with lines of the playboy models and other women. Even with our activity you could still begin to see how the lines of string created the positive and negative spaces around them and how you could change them my changing the direction and placement of the string. Overall, it was a fairly fun activity and it did surprisingly really demonstrate the point of the lines and shapes lesson.