Monday, October 20, 2008

Intriguing Image:What Does The Image Mean?


The picture that I have chosen is the formation of a house, or possibly a building used for important aspects. Choosing this building, and observing it, tells us that sometimes the most difficult combinations can signify togetherness that can bring out the area as well as shape, if that is the intention. By looking at the building, it seems like a triangular formed housing, with windows outside that are not following the pattern. As you look at it. The shape definitely moves closer to the picture, but like it is pointing to the sky, especially at the rooftop. By looking at the roof, it has a right triangle shape when you look at the top of where the triangles are seen on the ceiling on the outside of the building. But as you look at the top, it is almost like a straight line, but it’s linearity goes upward as the line reaches the pointed edge. The form definitely signifies thickness because the building is shaped as if it is almost double layered. With the outside walls looking a bit wide towards the top of the picture. Though as you look on the right side, the wide top starts to go down and shrink as it approaches the ground. But on the left side, it is still thick buy goes down with an angle instead of inward like on the right side. Now, the triangular shape combines with line shapes as if they were both brought together to make something that is balanced, but exempts contrast as you look at it. Such as, the lines that are on the glass that goes from the ceiling to the floor. And as for the color, most of the color is green with some yellow showing on the inside of the building. But not just straight green, there are light green and a darker green. The light green shows more towards the glass of the building and the darker shows on the side of the building. Surprisingly, even though there is darker green on the side of the building, there is also dark green on the ceiling top on the outside of the house with some light showing from the two triangular windows that are also attached to it. Seeing the colors make one see the balance in the colors that are taken in the picture, almost like the colors are resulting equilibrium. But what is also awkward about this photo is that almost everything signifies a triangular shape that almost resembles the building. For instance, the pot of flowers looks like the windows with light bouncing with yellow, brown, and green off the plants. The difference between the two is that you can see the windows entire shape while the shape of the flowerbed is pointing out of the picture (almost as if it was not intended to be in the picture at all.). Basically from looking at this picture, there is some togetherness trying to come out, but also there is more than one way to look at it as well. That togetherness results from combination of the building to signify the outside, from the flowerbed and do not forget the ramp walkway that connects with the building wall on the left side of the building.

1 comment:

Blinky said...

I think the bright green of the grass on the bottom left helps to balance the dark exterior of the building on the top right. The grass keeps the composition from becoming top-heavy and displeasing to the eye.
-Kim Spann