This was my first ever art project so I was very inexperienced and confused when it came to the aspect of the art moving your eyes around, negative space, and using all corners, but it was fun to see how my work evolved the more I learned. We had to make 4 different photos using lines but in different ways using black paper, white paper, and an exacto knife.

At the beginning of this project, we went outside to take photos of things that had lines and weren’t a shape. This is also the inspiration for one of the pieces I made for this project that you will see later. I liked the fact that it had lines that made the stairs but also skinnier lines at the end.
This one is made completely made of diagonal lines and was my easiest one because I had to cut out straight lines and make them match each other opposite of the big line in the middle. I feel like the large line in the middle helps move your eyes up and down the piece. There are a few places in this piece where there isn’t a symmetric element but I think it makes it feel better than having that part put in because it would feel too stuffy.
This was horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and curved lines all in one piece. This one is inspired by one of the reference photos we had to take at the beginning of the semester. I added the same curves I added for the curved line piece on the sides and used diagonal lines to make a rail-shaped line for the stairs. If I had to name it I would call it ‘Stairway to Heaven’.
This one is made completely of curved lines and is probably my favorite and the only one that looks a bit different from the others. I based this one on the shape of a butterfly and added the side pieces being the wind pushing up its wings, like the diagonal one it is symmetric. The curve on the side connects at the end of the curves and helps move your eyes up and down and once it hits the ‘antennas’ of the butterfly it moves back down near the middle.