As one starting point for my thesis, I started looking into the idea of the "orderly chaos". I once read a detective novel where the murderer was completely unpredictable and fit no prior profile whatsoever. The detective, of course, saves the day at the end but he mentioned that the murderer makes complete sense in his own head, just not in ours. The murderer's seeming chaotic actions, as the protagonist puts it, is just an orderly chaos that we can't seem to understand. Ever since then, I've been in love with the phrase, "orderly chaos" and recently remembered it and decided to adapt it.

After reading about the “tea leaf paradox,” which was a linked example under the wikipedia entry for “spontaneous order,” I’ve gotten obsessed with the idea of spinning objects. I like how all the “chaotic shapes” end up with an “orderly pattern” due to a scientific reasoning of “the center of gravity.”

The photographs have been shot at different shutter speeds and as Norman Klein puts it, this project "slows down our vision to reveal something we could miss so easily." I like that.

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During the thesis pecha kucha, Tim Durfee advised us to try and make a final project with whatever experiments we did in the past 5 weeks. I’ve been wanting to make a poster or something out of the orderly chaos experimental photographs and finally got to making them into a fan-out printed piece. The spinning motion in the photograph is mimicked in the form that it’s in and this has actually been a great way to show the details I liked in the photographs. Because I took this extra step, I do feel like the work I put into this project didn’t go into the trash and was left as an artifact towards my final thesis project.