Compare and Contrast

For the project involving twelve skewers and twelve pieces of bristol board, also known as the "Unity" project, i decided to create a form that greatly resembled a spiral staircase. My project coincided well with one of my classmates'. Gregory Hickman's project had the same spiral form, but in a vertical direction. So i decided to analyze a bit more deeply what he did similarly, along with what we did differently.

We, as a class, were bound to the twelve, twelve inch skewers, and the twelve 4" by 6" pieces of bristol board. Greg and I used our skewers in very similar ways. We had two skewers connected to each piece of bristol board. My final creation, however, was much larger than his because he folded his bristol board in half along each skewer to create a more structurally sound form. I kept my bristol board flat and flimsy. This also resulted in his project being much shorter than mine, even though his pieces of bristol board went vertically. 

Another difference between our projects was that he included three layers of cardboard to act as a baseboard for his presentation. This baseboard was very successful in emphasizing the many different heights of the skewers and the gradation of the bristol board pieces.  

One of the main differences between our projects was that my skewers all remained the same height whereas his started out shorter and grew in height as the bristol board rose to different levels. 

A common theme in our projects that are most obvious were the repetition of the pattern. The spirals that we created had a very distinct sense of unity, working together to stay up, and the repetition was a big part of that.