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Circles offer unlimited opportunity for self-expression
Circles offer unlimited opportunity for self-expression
During the 2020-21 virtual school year with middle-schoolers at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, OR. For each "assignment" students were asked to photograph their pieces using the technology and resources available to them at home. They shared these pictures in a digital portfolio along with written responses reflecting their observations and experience. Their images illustrate the expansive of individual interests and creative expression using the patterns inherent to circles. Students used a variety of mediums, techniques, and personal interests in which to explore the circle folding process.
Permission to use these images granted by the students.
Click HERE to view Rangoli Designs made by students using the traditional triangular dot grid (the same grid inherent in the folded circle from which all of these forms originate).
Exploration of tetrahedrons in fabric
Circle patterns and snowflake symmetry
Icosahedron Manga Book Apple
Close up of the VE Sphere: 4 circles folded with 6 diameters, and designed on both sides of each circle with 48 individual people al connecting in various combinations
Circlefolding is a process of observation and exploration
Stellated Icosahedron with "ombreyed" color design
Close up of flora and fauna icosahedron
Icosahedron: 3-D exploration of the Elements of Design
Half VE Sphere: collaged geode design
How a student chose to photograph all of the shapes they generated from folded circles and seeing a similarity in pattern with the natural world.
"Op Art" in motion
Result of folding a circle into an 8 frequency grid and then crumpling it for 60 minutes.
Exploration of"Op Art"
Exploration of crosshatching to explore the movment and folds in the folded circles - open icosahedron
Exploration of "Op Art"
Where Are You From": exploration of the prompt through the use of folded circles and contour drawings/paintings inspired by GoogleEarth.
Student's response to the prompt of creating a sculpture using a minimum of 4 circles and the folding process as they knew it thus far.
Student exploring paper textures and colors.
This student found this shape compelling while on the way to making a truncated dodeca-icosahedron sphere.
Tiny Forest Journals
Tiny Forest Journals
Forest Journals by second graders (photos used with permission) using handmade and recycled papers.
“Observation is foundational to life, to exploration, and to creative expression; knowing how to observe is essential.”
Bradford Hansen-Smith, founder of Wholemovement
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