This is a game created by Bruno Munari found in his book Flight of Fancy.
“Let’s imagine a land flat as a sheet of paper, in fact let’s take a sheet of paper and a black felt-tipped pen with a large round tip and mark some dots at random on the paper, skipping about with the pen held upright.
Let’s look at [the dots] as reference points around which and with which we will establish clusters – connections – formal relationships – using straight lines, curved lines or lines of dots, or whatever. The game consists in inventing lots of different ways of connecting, linking, grouping together these dots.
Let’s get some copies done of this group of dots right away (twenty? twenty-seven? eighteen? thirty-five?…) Here’s the pack of copies which I’m about to place on the table. I take my pen out of the right-hand pocket of my jacket and I start connecting the dots.”
Do you see why I love him so?
note: in this game you do not have to literally “connect” the dots, you can group them, enclose them or link them somehow.
1:27 pm
I see lots of animal faces!
3:01 pm
love this! =)
5:39 am
i see a rabbit
9:08 pm
I see a snail oh and kari i love your books make more
3:23 pm
i see a bear wearing a necklace and crying…..sad then i turn my head and see a happy ladybug! so cute!
5:44 am
i can see a rabbit
4:32 pm
a see a rabbit, or a wombat. now I see a parott. now I see chicken pocks. now I see a snail now I see a baby kangaroo. now I see a toad/frog! now I see a different frog. now I see tadpole babies. :) aww!