Aristotle called Symmetry one of the main forms of Beauty, along with Order and Definiteness. Symmetric art beautifully accents a space to prevent unwanted graffiti. It makes a city look cool and makes tax payers happy. People now have something better than graffiti tags to look at and save money from a City not needing to paint over as much graffiti. 🎨Win💰Win🎨
How Symmetric Art works
When symmetric art is properly placed, cities tend to not paint over it and taggers don’t tag over it. And people don’t complain because it looks good.
How to make Symmetric Art
Symmetric art is pretty simple. Just start with a piece of chalk or a paint pen at the ‘canvas’ center and, beginning with your less-dominant hand, draw a formation (line, curve, circle, dashes, dots, etc.) out toward the edge. Then repeat in mirror direction with your dominant hand from the same center to the opposite edge. Whatever your less-dominant hand can do, your dominant hand does more confidently. That’s the KEY. None of my hundreds of symmetric pieces have ever looked the same. And not on purpose. By nature, there is an endless combination of bilateral creations (don’t believe me, look at all bilateral creatures under the sun). I never know at the beginning what my symmetric art pieces will look like, so approaching completion is always exciting 🤘
How a city can get symmetry artists (AKA any average person)
Local artists and even non-artists can produce symmetry art. Literally, it’s just learning how to develop both hands through focus on the less-dominant side and mirroring movement with the dominant. Just going stroke by stroke, allowing a sensation of creativity to organically take hold. Have fun and let your body’s design for mirror movement flow. Just like people who feel great from walking, hiking, swimming, running, cycling, and yoga, producing symmetric art will do a little something extra good for the brain/body in this micro-muscular workout.
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