I have begun the next phase of my book carving. After talking to my professor I realized there was much more that could be said about how society has evolved an where we will continue to evolve. I have chosen to still start with a classic example of a FLW stain glass window:

Next I want to subtract away to a broken version of the window:

Which then morphs into FLW's utopia, which he described as a rural community that is oriented around an art center and central space. This is what he wanted to see in society, and is he had it his way cities wouldn't exist. However, in today's society there is a need for cities. People are multiplying by the second and the population is continuing to increase. We need to build up in order to have enough space to house everyone. Because of this the abstracted FLW rural utopia will slowly morph into the cities of today as you flip through the book. The art center will disappear and be replaced by cookie cutter squares that form the grid of a common city.

The images above show a trial run with my biology book. The pages are much thinner then the pages of my book, so I'm hoping that my book will flip more easily and hold up better to all the cuts i plan to make.

I think its important to view the development of society, seeing how even before FLW's time, America started as a clean slate with nothing but open land. As people started coming over from Europe, communities were formed and homes began to be formed, many surrounded by farms. Later, larger communities began to form around ports, cities. Even now, what we consider to be suburban wouldn't fit in with FLW's utopia, but the world has moved away from that and towards more densely populated communities filled with cookie cutter houses. This isn't necessarily to right answer, and FLW was aware that, but the hard question to think about is what is the best way to populate the current, increasing population?