I wanted to create a print based on the famous nuclear symbol but didn’t just want to repeat it, so I cut it out a few times out of black paper and started to rearrange the shapes that make it up until I found a print that I really liked. After I made this print I wanted to make it into a repeat print so my first attempt was to fill the page with print and then cut it up into four sections and swap them horizontally so it would repeat. However, this ended up leaving a lot of blank space that would have separated the print and stop it from repeating properly. To stop this from happening in my second attempt I filled the middle of the page, cut it vertically and swapped them, then I filled the middle and cut horizontally and swapped them then filled the rest. This meant that the edges where filled with print and they would line up correctly. Unfortunately this still have an issue as because it had to be so precise when repeating it, if you made a mistake it was very obvious. So for my third attempt I altered my second one by replacing the pieces that had been cut in half to full pieces so even if it was a bit off when lined up it would still have full pieces and wouldn’t matter.

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