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The splayed layout concept was new and interesting to me. So I was happy to have resolved the procedural problems through the test model, and I decided to go ahead with the one with a dark purple center. Some thing was there or, I should say, almost there.

After I laid out the newly cut pieces, I tried adding some other pieces: a quiet light blue here, bigger cerulean blue rectangles here and there. What about a magenta piece right here? No. How ’bout orange? Red overlapping pieces? Nope. The added pieces decreased the dynamic of the original instead of pumping it up. The arrangement became blob-like. It was a back-to-square-one moment. A return to the scene where the total visual impact seemed to hold…well, possibility at least.

What did it need? Was it a color, an added cutout, background color, lines, dots? What was it? What hadn’t I thought of yet? I was being very persistent about this.

Time for “Let’s Pretend It’s Done!” I placed the board, with the unattached cutouts in their original arrangement, on top of a black frame. Perhaps viewing it as finished might jolt my senses into Total Awareness of how to finish it. The next part gets a little hazy. (After all, it’s part magic. Right?) But, I either turned the board around or maybe I walked around it, and I saw a more interesting torque vertically. Aha. Ok. Check it. Back to horizontal. Vertical. Verticality is it!

Well, almost it.

This construction of cutouts was looking a little bit too self-important. In order to bring this galaxy of cutouts out of itself and connect it to the surrounding space, I placed a small yellow circle at the top. The circle is not just a design element, an accent. I think it adds more physical and emotional meaning to the whole.

Finished? Maybe just one more piece…