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. You may notice that the cube on the left looks pretty sad and pitiful. The paragraph below explains why that is more fully. The image on the left is the result of another investigation that I did; I took six squares of equal size and glued them together in new ways. If you roll the mouse over the two images directly below you'll see different angles of the two investigations.

 

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. (Since then I have also lost two pieces of the cube and it no longers fits together perfectly...but I still love it for what it is, not for what it looks like). 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 Anjyu 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: