branch still life 3 of 3

Part three of a three part photographic analysis of this attractive but dead little branch. In this third stepI took the branch apart and a simple catalogue of the branch’s components is documented. This is an approach taken in design workflows and one I practised through much of my career as a graphic designer.

 

When I first decided to take apart the branch I assumed I would have one branch, two flower heads and one pile of needles. However, as it was carefully disassembled I discovered that the smaller branch and flower head was a separate “system” that grew out of the flower at the end of the larger branch. I ended up with a different image of this audit process than I originally envisioned. This discovery is why you take things apart in design... only in proper research do you discover the structure of things.

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