Manifesto of Compositional Balance (1st Draft)

After my one-to-one tutorial at the beginning of this week I decided to purely focus on Arnheim's chapter on Balance to write my manifesto of rules. In terms of my research, this is the approach to composition that I have found most interesting and informative. I think the manifesto does not necessarily produce step-by-step rules, but a number of mechanisms or principles to generate balance. 

Considering using the principles of gestalt psychology or the golden ratio, Denman Ross or Rudolph Arnheim in the writing of my rules has caused me to spend a lot of time thinking about how to construct this manifesto, rather then just making the images themselves. Now that I've focused on this specific compositional principle and theorist I feel as though I can move forward with the project and actually start making the final two categories of images.