Artist Statement - My art piece consists of five shapes all with varying amounts of sides with circles that correspond to the amount of sides that each shape has. The background is covered with white triangles to represent the fact the color does not exist in Flatland due to a war that was centered around color. The main goal of my art piece is to represent the social structure of Flatland. Flatland is a 2 dimensional world, and the more sides a shape has, the higher up in the social structure the shape is. I am including an isosceles triangle, which is at the very bottom of the social pyramid, and then have four other shapes that eventually reach seven sides. These four shapes are a square, a pentagon, a hexagon, and a heptagon. The circles included in each shape represent how close each shape is to becoming a circle. For example the triangle only has three circles, and when they’re combined, they look nothing like a circle. When I drew seven circles for the heptagon, it looks more like a circle, showing that it’s closer to the ideal shape of Flatland, which is to have as many sides as possible. The “leaders” of Flatland are led by so called circles, which are really just shapes that have the appearance of a circle, although they are really made up of hundreds or even thousands of sides. Technically the shapes that are on my art piece are not truly 2 dimensional as they would be in the book, but I wanted to add gold paint to the edges of the shapes to the make them stand out. I chose to only include five shapes, because the circles I drew on the shapes create a flower when there are seven sides, therefore I last shape I included was a heptagon. Overall, the goal of this art piece is to understandably represent the “social pyramid” of Flatland, and how it can be captured through art.
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