Topic 4: Landscape and Cities- Actual, Imagined, Shaped and Built In-depth Project

For my in-depth piece on the landscape topic, I wanted to go back to the first exercise of the unit and have a different take on it. Instead of just sitting down for an hour, I decided I was gonna walk around different places and write down the turns I made, and if I crossed the street, etc, and record them on a little notebook. 

This idea would allow to abstractly represent the city I live in. While in the process I realized that my drawings not just looked like a city, in the sense that rectangles could be buildings and what not, but it also looked like a city seen from above. I chose lines and squares because showed order, structure, simplicity, etc.

The first sketch I took my notes and my imagination and came up with that overlapping layout of squares and lines. My first idea was to depict that across all 6 panels and connect them. Then I thought because plexi is clear I could do something with that, but after making 2 little mockups didn't turn out the way I imagined. 

I chose plexi as my medium because as I mentioned before I wanted to experiment with the transparency, but also because I had never worked with it and I felt its simplicity wouldn't take away from the work, and it would compliment the simple shapes.