Fuse/Sawblade

This one was one of the harder assignments from my Typography class last spring. The teacher brought 4 different manila envelopes for picking. Each envelope contained 2 random, seemingly unconnected items. When it got time to picking our envelopes, what I got was a fuse and a small sawblade. The assignment was as follows: make something and bring it the following week.As easy as that sounds, it wasnt. It was a little hard to think outside the box at first. I scanned both items into the computer and literally tried to make "things" out of them. All I could think of was making the blade an arm of some sort and the fuse as its joint. I spent a long time just trying making shapes but it felt like all I was doing was making tinkertoys. Finally, I came up with two spiralling patterns: one circular spiral and another triangular. During critique I mentioned that I liked the circular one, but everyone agreed that the triangular one was more dynamic and therefore more successful.