Rectilinear Exercise
In the first Foundations exercise, students are asked to organize clay rectangular volumes into groups of three. The volumes should vary as much as possible. One, a dominant volume, should be the largest and most engaging. The subdominant volume compliments the dominant. The third and smallest volume is called the subordinate. It should introduce a third axis, and make the form more three-dimensional. It should fill in what is missing from the dominant and subdominant volumes.