Once I completed the graphite drawings, it was time to move on to another level of dimensionality. It was time to go back to three dimensions. To do this, I took six of my twelve drawings and glued them to the faces of a chipboard cube. To investigate "cubeness" I glued faces of small cubes together in different ways.

 

Once I sat down in front of the computer, I found that I had no direction or inspiration to begin my formZ model. To mix things up and get some ideas, I decided to cut my cube in half following some of the lines. I really liked the result quite a bit, but it didn't really help me in the progression of my project. So I looked to other sources. It took me quite a while to find any kind of direction. Inspiration finally hit me at about three in the morning through tears of frustration. I finally came across the work of Yasuo Ohba. His work (unknown title) really got me to think about the faces of my cube and the possibility of rotaing copies of them. With this inspiration, I created a model in formZ:

[double click the image above to see a Quicktime animation of my model]

This animation may stop suddenly...I still need to compress it. Sorry for any inconvenience. If the animation stops suddenly, double click again and it should start back up.