This course blog is where we communicate as a group, share responses to assignments, and post our work. You are required to publish posts according to assignments found on Moodle, and are encouraged to share images, make comments, and pose public questions throughout the semester.
The sharp contrast of the white peon chess piece and the rest of the picture is very effective. Placing human silhouettes on the chess board makes me think of the power plays found at some corporations. I find the background photo of what seems to be a dirty restroom very unsettling to me. I love black and white photos.
Wow, totally different! It's interesting to critique this image in relation to the other, the figure on the path in a field of grass. Maybe it's that this source image, while interior and therefore less deep space, seems to play with scale and perspective much better than the previous image. Maybe it's the forced angle of the sinks receding into the corner, or the greyscale that lends itself to highlight and shadow, but there is so much more spacial complexity to this image. The inclusion of mirrors helps to reinforce this illusion by giving the viewer a sense for elements that fall outside of the available frame. The strange, silhouetted, ghostly figures feel just right in their treatment and scale, seeming to anchor the composition. My only suggestion would be to establish a ground for the foregrounded pawn. It is blunt and important in its composition placement, yet it feels a bit detached while all other elements have a logical ground. Not that a surface for the pawn needs to necessarily be represented, but some consideration as to how and why it exists in that particular position in this image might give it a perspectival home in relation to the other elements. I love the feeling in the image: very insular and gritty.
The sharp contrast of the white peon chess piece and the rest of the picture is very effective. Placing human silhouettes on the chess board makes me think of the power plays found at some corporations. I find the background photo of what seems to be a dirty restroom very unsettling to me. I love black and white photos.
ReplyDeleteWow, totally different! It's interesting to critique this image in relation to the other, the figure on the path in a field of grass. Maybe it's that this source image, while interior and therefore less deep space, seems to play with scale and perspective much better than the previous image. Maybe it's the forced angle of the sinks receding into the corner, or the greyscale that lends itself to highlight and shadow, but there is so much more spacial complexity to this image. The inclusion of mirrors helps to reinforce this illusion by giving the viewer a sense for elements that fall outside of the available frame. The strange, silhouetted, ghostly figures feel just right in their treatment and scale, seeming to anchor the composition. My only suggestion would be to establish a ground for the foregrounded pawn. It is blunt and important in its composition placement, yet it feels a bit detached while all other elements have a logical ground. Not that a surface for the pawn needs to necessarily be represented, but some consideration as to how and why it exists in that particular position in this image might give it a perspectival home in relation to the other elements. I love the feeling in the image: very insular and gritty.
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