Resize
Change the size of the whole by one factor; keep every proportion.
A spoon the length of a bridge.
Seen in Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 1985
Try it on your work
Copy a small object in modelling clay at a quarter of its size, measuring every part and dividing by four. Stop when every part is done.
Rewrite a one-page text at a tenth of its length, keeping each part's share: a paragraph of five lines becomes half a line. Stop when every part has its share.
A group marks out the floor plan of a large hall on a tabletop at one-fiftieth of its size, measuring every distance and dividing. Stop when the plan is complete.
How it has been used
Make the whole larger or smaller by one factor and keep every proportion inside it: the spoon at the size of a bridge, the building as a model in the hand, the drawing copied at a quarter of its size. The move forbids changing anything but the size: no part grows on its own.
Where it leads
Grouped under Change what it is