Pipes

I began with on focusing on a different idea- one which consisted of wavy lines and different colors but was suddenly inspired by the tangle of pipes, which are visible below the ceiling of our classroom. Therefore I constructed a system with a pipe design, which is repeated over the following ten pages. The instructions of the system follow-

·      First design a basic template of a pipe drawing right in the centre of the page.

·      Using a different color repeat the same design except shift it three squares up and 3 squares left of the starting point of the pipe design.

·      For the following page use the same strategy – use a different color pen, move the design 3 spaces up and this time 3 spaces to the right.

·      For the next page replicate the design, except this time it is 3 squares up and 3 squares left from the bottom of the pipe design.

·      By the 5^th page you move back to the top half of the page and this time you count 6 squares from the top tube of the pipe design and 6 squares to the left. The next page repeats the same pattern except it is 6 squares up and to the left.

·      This pattern is also repeated for the bottom half of the page where the design is moved 6 spaces up and to the right from the bottom tube of the design and next 6 spaces up and to the left.

·      This pattern continues with 3 squares added to the distance upwards and sideways from the ends of the top and bottom tubes of the pipe design.

·      The middle pipe design acts as the anchor for the rest of the design, everything else builds up on it and it is necessary to use different colors each time to see the different pipe patterns.

 

Each page has to consist of all the pipe designs in the previous one, so each page grows more complicated and complex. The only way to maintain the uniformity of each pipe design is by counting the number of squares for the length of each bend and maintaining this number for all 10 sheets. The first pages start of easy but each becomes more complicated and time consuming, which I didn’t realize at the beginning of the project! The system is mainly for a design purpose and reveals its intricacies as it builds up.