Project Description
“MetrOrganism” was designed for three cylindrical pillars in the Aspirations Diploma Plus High School library. Student artists developed imagery through observation of the immediate neighborhood and environment. They maintained notebooks of their personal reflections about the characteristics of their local community and the city as a whole. The students also studied the Da Vincian principle of Curiosita: an insatiable approach to life and unrelenting quest for continued learning. Free association exercises led the students to a vision of the city as living organism. Each image in the triptych is continuous to the left and right in either direction.
Fun Facts
After viewing “MetrOrganism,” compile your thoughts on how it makes you feel. Does it create a feeling of an urban and industrial life form?
Leonardo Da Vinci was not only a brilliant renaissance painter and sculptor; he was a great inventor, military engineer, scientist, mathematician, and botanist.
Da Vinci suggested three different ways of looking at your own creative work. First, you must look at your work in a mirror. Second, you must walk away from your work to view it from different perspectives. Third, you must study it from a distance.
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BLICK Industry City
220 36th Street
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The Seasons of 4 Downing
4 Downing Street
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The City As A Living Body
273 Bowery Street
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