A Segment of a Tour of the National Gallery of Flatland

Vocabulary paper for 2D Design (Art 109) at Shoreline College with Prof. Matt Allison. Based loosely on Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. A line of students drew its way into the main gallery of the prestigious National Gallery of Flatland, following closely behind their docent, a bold and short instructor of Impressionistic Design who went by the title Professor Stout. Stout dashed towards the center of the next display on their itinerary and stood upon a blue-green field of gouache while motioning for silence. “As we have experienced, the curious images in this wing have been collected from what we believe are three-dimensional beings who attempted in their own crude ways to imagine what life might be like here in Flatland,” lectured Stout gesturing at the scene on all sides of them. The students nudged up against one another for a better view of the landscape that unfolded around them. […]

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