Blog 1

I thought that the shapes in this picture is what made it the most interesting. There are so many parallel, vertical, and horizontal lines, and then the brightest images that pop from the blue wall are not lines at all. The picture appears to be a room that has normally white walls and a window smack in the middle. Outside the window you can see what appears to be a tree. This picture is strictly straight lines exexpt for the clouds that have been painted on the only colorful part of this picture. It had depth like maybe you were just walking into this room. You were walking in from a door that was now behind you and taking a picture head on to the back of the room. Nothing in this picture is exactly white. There seems to be stains from old age, overuse, and dirt. The two parts of this picture that break from the horizontal line pattern they having going on would be again the clouds, and also the wire from the aire conditioning vent. It just so happens that they both have been placed on the only two things that aren't white. I thin kthat what pokes out easily in this picture is the AC vent. The blue wall is, yes, bright...but I think that black is a color that catches a person's eye first. This picture is full of the same shape. There are squares and rectangles covering the picture from the lines on the wall on the right, to the floor boards with the darker tan squres, down to the very last paint chip on the window frame.

Though this picture has very little in it, I dont view it as boring at all. It's filled with warmth. Personally my room when I was young had clouds on it that my dad painted. This brings back a sense of home to me. This picture creates a sort of curiosity to me. I wonder what is going on behind the camera, who is taking the picture, and what else you would find in the room. It appears to be vacant, but the greatest thing about this picture is that this could be the enitre room, or one corner of some magnificant living space. The only negative part of this picture is the position from which the photographer took this picture. Is the entire room dirty or was it just that the person liked the "older" look? Wether or not we focus on the wall we see the dirt and wear and tear on the room. Makes you wonder who lives there.

-Kelsey Ransom