Tasnim Beg, College Senior
"It's... Three Dimensional Design class. We've been focusing on geometrical shapes and how different forms relate to each other because there are actually, like, relationships between the human body and the basic forms in life that have mathematical relationships Plato and Archemides figured out back in the day... the distance from your head to your feet divided by the distance from your belly button to your feet is always 1.168.... Root 2 and root 5 relate a lot of aspects of the human body, like the segments of your fingers compared to the length of your fingers..."
"They were kind of like costumes and they were kind of themed around Halloween, but it wasn't a Halloween costume thing--it's just that she [Professor Elizabeth Doering] wanted us to be able to wear them to really see how they are related to the human body.... I decided to do wings because I wanted to make them flap.... They were usually really abstract. I think wings was a very traditional thing to do--most people did these bizarre forms that wrapped around their bodies or extended from their hands or something like that..."
"Glenn actually had to figure out how to balance his because it was tilting off his head so he had put a weight going in another direction so that it would stay up.... I wanted to increase the radius of the wings in terms of where they flapped. I had to change some of the shapes I was using, and so that helped me to really learn about how the shapes interact with one another."
Glenn Tramanatano, College Senior
"We were... taking the idea that we would be making forms that would be extensions of our body, and they would act as some sort of function, maybe to develop a sense that we thought we needed to develop more, or just something that would relate us to our surroundings more than our body already did."
"My project sort of changed as I built it because function sort of followed form in this case; there were complications that arise I guess as I started building it. At first it was supposed to be extensions of my eye but as I realized that it would be hard to balance it off my head, I sort of made this big magnet that would sort of attract... the powers of the universe, or something, so that's what it became, just this big magnet sticking off the top of my head"
