Exploded Squares

Seventh graders completed their first project of the year and everyone who walks by is quite impressed! For this project, we focused on creating a harmonious, balanced composition in dark and light, as well as developing skills creating a high level of detail with a craft knife. Students began with a 6"x6" black or white square. On it they designed shapes that related to each other while thinking about balancing the positive and negative spaces of their square. Students used a a craft knife to carefully cut out their shapes and flipped them along the edges before gluing in place (in most cases, additional shapes were cut from already cut pieces and they were flipped back in towards the original square). Each is unique!