A Discontinuous Continuum

So we got our first Photography assignment "A Discontinuous Continuum". Sounds fascinating, doesn't it? Wait there is more. The description of the assignment reads:

Tuesday, July 17:
CRITIQUE: First Assignment due, "A discontinuous continuum": make three photo coninuums, each comprised of at least two photographs abutted together horizontally or vertically. Begin with a first picture, carefully choosing its composition and framing. The second picture will be an extension from one of the edges of your first picture (so note the edges of the first picture!), accepting whatever happens to fall in the frame. The purpose of this assignment is to begin to understand the relationship between intention and accident, choice and discovery.

Okay, now in English. What Jason (our instructor) explained to us is that when you take a picture you capture a small frame out of the whole view. Okay I need a diagram to explain this. Suppose the gray area in the first diagram below is the whole view that you can see, then when you take a picture you capture only the white area of that whole view and discard the rest. So our assignment is to take pictures right adjacent to that main picture (as shown in second diagram). It can be in any direction but the edges of the picture should be common. I am not sure about the purpose of this exercise yet (though he did explain). But it also does mean that I am wasting a whole lot of rolls trying to figure this out.

I hope it will make sense by next week..