Group introductory project.

for our introductory project, Applied arts and fine art (the courses are merged in first year) were split into groups and given the theme 'When nature meets culture'. we brainstormed for a while and decided to make a timeline. One side would start with civilisation and buildings, going from skyscrapers, round to more organic structures like cottages. From the other side, we would start with mountains, to mirror the skyscrapers, and have lots of colours and plants, nature untouched by humans. we decided to link the two sides with water, which is important in both nature and culture, so the nature side had a stream, coming down the mountains and round to the middle, where it met a canal, a man made stream, coming from the culture side. I took pictures of the parts to show the many different styles of drawing that our group created.

 we also used some yarn and origami to make it slightly 3D, to add interest to what would have otherwise been quite a flat piece.

 Other groups, though they had the same starting point, had very different final pieces to ours. i found it very interesting to see the different ways it had been interpreted.