Illuminate: Different things can be illuminated in different ways. The pyramids of Giza were once polished and held golden points as beacons across the flat plain desert. To be seen was their main purpose to tell all that the Pharaoh was extremely important. Watercolor or lack of color shows where the light is coming from on the objects that you paint. The white that is left actually shows the object better than coloring in to the lines. In the Greek myth Prometheus and Zeus, Prometheus brought fire to the humans which helped them with warmth and light to see by. “He was the only god to stand up against Zeus, by his own accord, only wanting to help the humans” stated Dr. Murphy a Mythology teacher.




Idiom: Parts of one language corresponding to another, but the meaning is not the same. Though an ocean apart the Ohio Valley burial ground and the Great Wall of China have similar aspects. They both curve with the land, but also make the land showing that humans have been there.


Material: Materials are important in anything in the world. Like how you build things or what you can afford, like in our project of Pat’s Chair. The only thing to work with is a four by eight-foot piece of MDF board, to make something that was able to be used and last. The buildings in Egypt were also relate to this factor, there is very little wood in Egypt so the buildings, temples, and tombs were built from what they had, a stronger sandstone than we have here in the United States. Watercolor, depending on how much water you use helps to show the differences in the materials that you shade in or the texture of the object.



Commodity, Firmness, and Delight: Buildings that we consider ruins were once and some still are a wonder. The pyramids of Giza still stand today thought not as they were, were made to last forever, the entire afterlife of the pharaoh. They were built to keep the soul of the pharaoh safe and to keep people from wondering in and disturbing them. The delight in them is that they stick out from the plain sand that surrounds them and people know what they are when they look at them. Another structure is Stonehenge. Though not knowing exactly what it was used for, it was a place where people once were and how hey lived. Even weather has not completely destroyed the stone circles, thought worn down they still stand. It is a mystery to how the people of the time move such huge stones, as they did not have pulleys only manual labor, which make people want to see it.

All of these working together make an environment for humans to use. The way we use a space is some part of how it is presented and what is there to use in the space. Many things come into play like what material goes the rest of the room and how it appeals to us, and others that come into the space.