Project Proposal:

 Antoinette Cudney
 
Design Statement:
My goal of this piece is to create images that are inspired by Lindy Hop (a swing dance). The goal is not to create an instruction manual of how to Lindy Hop, but to communicate the feel, rhythm and motion of it.
To communicate this, I’ll use colors that I associate with Jazz and Swing music, namely warm, bright hues in the foreground paired with darker, cooler ones as the background. This creates depth in the piece, which I’m looking for. The background will also be on a horizontal gradient from a dark, cool color to black. I hope this creates a sort of motion to the picture.
Lindy-hop is an eight count dance, and I’ll use rhythm of shapes placed in a similar pattern of where the feet would be. The rhythm of Lindy-hop is 1 2 3-and-4, 5 6 7-and-8. Since I do not want this image to be taken as an instruction manual, and for clarity between the shapes, I will simplify where the shapes actually go. The closest thing that I can compare the placement of these to is a cancer sign where the circles overlap. The first shape will be a large circle that is lower and to the right, the second a square of the same size that is to the left and above the circle. Then I select two small circles that are half the size of the larger shapes. They both are on a diagonal from the center. One is on the upper left, the other lower right. The next shape is a large circle to the right, with a center on the same horizon as the center. The next shape is a large circle that is symmetrically placed across from the center. Then I select two small circles again, placed in to the right and up, and left and down. Finally, I select a square that is to the right and up, and then a circle to the left and above that. 
While the rhythm of lindy hop remains regular, the music changes all the time. So in the right corner, there will be two parallel lines of colored spirals (like the shape of barbed wire) moving across in a line. Swing music feels like it is moving forward because of syncopation and other musical reasons, and I want to create an imbalance to communicate this feeling. This is why I place two parallel lines in only one corner. Depending on the number n, the spirals might draw to the edge of the image, creating the effect of forward motion that I want.
 
 
 
 Technique Statement:
I am using the methods of turtles, choosing a color from a list, and basic drawings to produce my visual interpretation of Lindy Hop.
I will use two turtles to make the swirls, with n modulo 11 determining how many spirals there are. One will start from the top edge of the image and go to the left side (at a 45 degree angle); the other will go from the left edge of the image to the top (also at a 45 degree angle). They will be parallel.
             I will use n modulo 8 to show my interpretation of the steps of lindy hop. I will use when statements for selecting images, letting them build off of eachother. The large squares and large circles will be twice the size as the smaller circles. The first large circle will be placed at (.5w, .75h) (width and height referred to as w and h from here on.) The first large square will be placed at (.35w, .65h). The two small circles will be placed at (.625w, .625h) and (.425w and .375h). Then a large circle will be selected at (.7w, .5h). Then, another large circle selected at (.35w, .5h), then two smaller circles at (.625w, .375h) and (.425w, .625h). Then a large square selected at (.5w, .15h), and finally, a large circle selected at (.35w, .05h). Both square have  a width of .1w, and a height of .1h. Large circles have the same dimensions (making them ellipses when the image is stretched.) Small circles have a width of .05w and a height of .05h.
 I will use n modulo 9 to determine the combination of foreground and background color, and I plan to have the background go in a gradient, where given a color from  the list-ref procedure, will take this color, and as column increases, the color gets darker. At the right edge of the image, the color is black. The n 13 modulo determines the color of turtles and shapes. They have the same list, but shifted one, so the two have different colors. Again, n 13 modulo uses list-ref.
The images will be distinct in color of turtles, shapes, and background, as well as the amount of shapes in the image, and how many spirals created by turtle will show up in the left-hand corner.