Task for this module was to compile a series of images produced in studio and/or location responding to four particular themes; one of these being Circles and Squares. Using very simple cut card and my fellow students as models the images below were selected to work with.
The idea for the kaleidoscope effect evolved organically through another module in which Photoshop was being used and was appropriate to use in these pieces. The actual invention of came from Scottish scientist David Brewster in 1816. He named his invention “kaleidoscope” from the Greek words:
kalos = beautiful eidos = form scopos = watcher
Therefore, kaleidoscope means “beautiful form watcher” which is pertinent to the patterns behind circles and squares formalism which is where I went next. Creating a page of patterns using sections of the original images “kaleidoscoped”.
The initial images were then post processed in Photoshop using the pattern as background.
And there you have it, circles and squares.
A little extra one; to turn a square into a circle using the rotation of the square 49 times; once at 45 degrees, thrice at 22 degrees, then the remainder at 12.5 degrees.
The perfect circle 🙂
Fiona Macphee 