PART 4 PERSONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Exercise 4.2 Analysing Composition

 What happens when you look at the picture? 

I was automatically drawn to look from the top to the bottom of the page. Its like the piece disintegrates as you go down the image. I also felt like if I saw it in person I would want to touch it to see how fragile it really was. As it looked fragile. 

What devices does the artist use to draw you into the picture?

I think Whitlock has been clever with the way she has photographed/displayed the piece, like a commuter reading his morning paper. The use of the Financial Times as well also draws you in as its a known brand. 

What holds you in the picture?

I find I am continually looking at all the different area, the hanging yarns, what looks like the bones of the paper, what's written on the paper? Who's behind the paper? why are they behind it? what story is it trying to tell?

I think its all the questions that holds me to the picture.

How has the artist used colour? 

Whitlock has used minimal colour with pops of blue and red yarn hanging from the disintegrating newspaper. This draws my eye down to the floor of the artwork. The black suit the person holding the piece is wearing emphasis's the frame of the newspaper. You wouldn't be able to the structure s clearly had it been on a lighter coloured background.

How has the artist identified a place or an emotion?

I feel like the artist trying to portray emotion, with the newspaper falling apart in the readers hand. Is the artist telling the story of the financial crisis, or perhaps a commuters life falling apart. What do the red and blue yarn mean? Why are the falling from the pages, is this another part of the persons life falling away in the readers hands and in front of their eyes. 

How do they bring other elements to the work?

Whitlock as transformed a normal everyday object of a newspaper and remade it with texture, created by the yarn hanging and the disintegrating newspaper, showing a skeleton of the piece. Whitlock has taken a 2D object and made it 3D with the texture as well as creating space by displaying the piece in the air.