For our Visual History, Research and Discourse class at SCAD. We were tasked with keeping a diary of our first week of class and taking a photograph to go along with it. Afterwards, we had to design an object that would represent that week as a whole and present both the copy and the images. It was a conceptual exercise more than anything. My week could best be summed up by the words 'Trial and Error' so I looked into ideas for puzzles that required a good bit of trial and error in order to complete them. Tangrams are wooden pieces cut from a single larger square piece. Those individual pieces (a parallelogram, a square, two big triangles, two small ones and one big one) can be arranged into many differenet configurations to create many different shapres and figures. They are open-ended puzzles, much like life itself, and require many attempts, trials, and errors, in order to configure correctly. 

When taken from the box, each day's entry is arranged into a square whhich shows that day's photograph. The text for that day's entry is on the other side, but the pieces must be rearranged into the figure shown on the instructions booklet in order to read the diary entry. 

The toughest part of this project, aside from concept creation, was production. The foamboard pieces had to be cut first, traced onto the text, and then the text had to be cut and glued onto the pieces. Being off by a sliver when cutting meant that the pieces, particularly the text, wouldn't line up correctly.