SCANNED EMOTION

In this piece I portray an emotion using a simple and common scanner: imagination. In the piece girl has her face between her hands, looking towards the scanner. She has her eyes closed in a face that seems like she is thinking or imagining something. Her hair flows upwards and out of her face. From her forehead brightly colored confetti flows out upwards creating a whole wave of color over her head. As it flows out different random elements appear. There are some blue and green curled gift streamers. There are also some pictures present: a picture of a tropical island, a picture of a candy heart and a cartoon football. The background is dark and the light is concentrated on the wave over her head and her nose and forehead.

 

 

I don’t think this piece has a pattern, as everything is positioned randomly and freely. The brightness and color saturation at the top symbolizing the imagination has a great contrast against the neutral and darker colors of the girl’s face. This drives all the emphasis not to the real face, but to what is happening over it, to the colorful wave. This also creates an asymmetrical balance in the picture, as most of the action is concentrated at the top part, leaving the lower part duller or less important. Even though there is a great contrast between the imagination and the face, between what is real and what is fictional, there is unity between all the elements, creating a visually interesting picture.

This piece portrays imagination in an idealistic way. The bright colors and appealing pictures and elements give this emotion a very positive feeling. Imagination is portrayed as something good and happy. The pictures on the top, which are random and have little to do with one another also symbolize how in the imagination anything is possible, whether it makes sense or not, as long as you are able to have the idea and visualize it. All the elements come together to convey the message that imagination is something positive and unique. This picture says a lot about me. It show my opinion of imagination, it shows how I think that imagination is a wonderful gift, and that one should hold on to it forever because to me it is one of the most important qualities of humans, to be able to invent and be creative freely with no kind of restraints.