This artifact is from Thursday of Week Eight, we started an activity in class where we all learned how to start a Rotational Escher Style Tessellation, we were not able to finish in class. 

I have always thought these styles of tessellations that use animal and funky shapes are super cool, so to learn how to make one on your own was a super fun experience. We had complete creative freedom with the cutouts we made, we could do wavy, pointy, curvy, etc. 

I didn't have a set animal or anything in mind that I wanted to make, so I decided to do one side curvy and wavy, and one side straight and more geometric. At the time I didn't realize that we were making both cutouts into one template, and else I might have tried to make a more cohesive shape, but I still think the one I ended up with looks cool. I am not a super artistic person, but that is part of what makes this activity fun, you don't have to be, as long as you can cut, trace and color you are pretty much set. I have not gotten a chance to finish this assignment yet unfortunately, but I plan on finishing it in my spare time, just because I think it's fun. I don't have a set plan color/design wise. However, the more I look at it, the more the shape looks like it could be a fish, so I am thinking of going that route once I am all done tracing. 

The fun thing about education classes is we do get to do fun things like this, whereas other college classes don't, but because we are learning not only the subject area, but how to engage our future students in these subject areas, we get to do fun assignments like this ourselves first. I explored the medical field and took some medical classes during fall term, and we did not do anything fun like this in those classes, and I have friends in other majors who I know haven't gotten to do many fun assignments either. Although we are all adults, we all still like to have fun, and sometimes I think it's nice to switch gears and have a more laid-back activity/assignment like this that allows our brains to stop and take a breath, which in the end is more beneficial for us than we realize, as most of us struggle to find that time to mentally decompress.