Structure + Morphology

I began with a movie, and went on a journey of construction and reconstruction.

My second studio project had us pair up and choose a movie. With my partner Regina, I chose Inside Out. We examined the plot, and each in our own way, built mood boards and mindmaps. I chose to focus on the idea of abstraction that emerges in a scene, when Riley walks into a void called the subconscious.

“That’s where they make all the trouble makers,” Jangles tells Riley.

I began to abstract. My paintings, my collages, my photographs. All in the nature of these four steps of abstraction.

What I chose to focus on was an image I took from the plane while landing in New York in February. The pattern of the houses… I’ll let them just speak for themselves:

First, I image traced the houses and began to deconstruct the shapes and patterns.

Then, I went back to the original photograph and painstakingly cut out each individual house. Well, about 150 of them.

What struck me the most was the order in the houses. How they all looked the same from a birds-eye view, yet, individually, each one was different.

I chose to use the houses and build concepts: order, inclusion and chaos.

After iterating, I chose to make the houses buildung blocks for order and choas. These were the two concepts that all of this embodied for me. The following are my final two sets of posters: