ABSTRACT

Composing is to put something in proper order and form, assembling a physical entity from smallrelational groupings or systems and their larger relationships; it is an aesthetically unified arrangement of small systems for a defined period of time (periodicity). Aesthetics of course are relative to culture and social agendas, and are major variables in composition-dependent upon the trialectic of culture, space, and time. In design, a composition is the arrangement (organization and structure) of elements in relationship representing a meaning or story, a spatial metaphor, with the process of its “making” evident in the composition, articulated in its physical dimensions or state.