Evan Pan, Resonance, Odyssey
Resonance by Odyssey is the song you listen to when you are driving down an empty freeway with a vibrant cityscape on the horizon. Albeit lyricless, the song uses electronic vibrations, reverb, and sounds to bring forth emotions of nostalgia, science fiction, and a general feeling of relaxation and hope for the future. As a result, I decided my piece needed to reflect the very same feeling. I incorporated mostly Gesalt’s concepts of similarity and proximity. The letter road extending into the horizon used the concept of proximity as it continued to grow smaller and smaller. The city on the horizon uses sameness in order to produce a buildings after buildings effect.
Finding the perfect font on Illustrator to match the cyberpunk feel of the song was rather impossible so I scoured the internet until I was satisfied. Then I started off the process by building the long road into the horizon as it was both my foreground and midground. I achieved the symmetry and gesalt principles by drawing a an isoceles triangle and then fitting the words in to build the tiles of the road. From there, I created the vehicles using the letter O and D and then the buildings in the background.
If I were to improve the project, I would certainly remove the rings revolving the road as they disrupted the feel of the road and took away from the main message of the piece (forward into the future). I would also fill in the empty spaces around the piece in order to even expand on the awespirng scale of the work.
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