Yang Tan

These were my initial associations at the beginning of the project (before doing the compositions)

Dynamic: (per the option given to us in class that we can just focus on one word, I just focused on the dynamic part.)

– up
– a ballet dancer
– running
– angles
– jumping
– arrows
– flight
– ballistics (a bat hitting a ball)
– spaceshuttle launching
– thumbtacks falling

Whimsical and delicate:

– flowers
– curling tendrils
– dandelion
– butterfly fluttering
– small bird drinking
– a feather
– snowflake
– puff of air/smoke
– leaves on the wind
– nautilous shell

safe and efficient

– safe boxes
– the pyramids (triangular)
– an egg held in crates
– cogwheel piece on machine
– automatons – boxy robots
– square trough
– step-pyramids
– very large door (viewed from bottom up to maximize imposingness = trapezoid)
– roman column
– a barred window