earth meets heaven mercury group

2nd installment of extra credit:

Mercury Group: members not pictured that helped were Sara Easterling and Christyn Dunning.

The Beat of Saturn's Drum

Our pattern and haiku are inspired by Japanese Taiko and Daiko drums. The drummers use strong, graceful strokes in fluid rounded motions. As they beat their drums they appear to be dancing. These rounded motions and repeated staccato rhythems are the foundation of our pattern and haiku.

Spiritual drums start to beat
Rhythm and patterns repeat
East and West shall meet

Uranus East Meets West

venus 2

Haiku response

Remeber the past
Strong self expression blossoms
Modern weaves in

The art piece pictured is a woven collage of textiles, colors, textures and images inspired by design from the East.
Team Earth considered the strong historical ties and cultural traditions, which are often thoughtfully woven into modern Eastern design.
This skillful integration was interpreted by Team Earth as a reaction to the current day context of rapid growth and power transitions that are re-shaping lives and cultural identities in the East.



Please note: Unfortunately some members of Team Earth are not represented in this picture due to schedule conflicts. All members participated in full.

earth meets heaven mercury group

infinite light void

repetition circle square

reflect heaven earth

venus

gridded form lies here
horizontal lines take shape
balanced linear

East meets West: Uranus

Roads of spice and silk
Marriage of materials
Nature Inspires

East meets West: Jupiter

east meets west: neptune

nature becomes form

bringing the outside inside

layering design

Extra Credit Mars Group

Haiku Concept

Evolve the beauty
there is nothing more pretty
a temple forming

we wanted the location of our design to be on top of the cardboard cantilever in the 3rd year studio, but we did have a ladder the composition is located in the corner above third year studio.