What I did for naarmamo Week 4

[capri0mni]

Here Are All the Pictures I Did as Challenges for NaArMaMo in Week #4

Of all of them, this is the one I'm most proud of:



Because, as diffecult as the image is, it's the one where I was really honest with my emotional truth at the time I made it, instead of trying to just make something "pretty" or "clever."

It's also the one that got the strongest responses from people who saw it. Isn't that always the way, with art?

Though, on a purely technical level, if I ever redo this picture, I think I'd turn the words in the background 90 degrees, so that there'd be more contrast between them and the central figure.

Comments

[rustyverse.livejournal.com]

Exquisite. Very beautiful work, Ann.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Though, on a purely technical level, if I ever redo this picture, I think I'd turn the words in the background 90 degrees, so that there'd be more contrast between them and the central figure.

You know, I think it has more impact the way it is. Very nice!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hm. Maybe the fact that the character almost blends into her background adds to the sense of foreboding?

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was thinking more that it's the triumph of art over insecurity. That's what I got out of it.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Well, in any case, the fact that the figure almost blends into the background adds to that feeling? Maybe?

(if only the triumph were total, rather than temporary...)

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

A bit. For me, it was as if the one overlay the other, but you could almost see through it to what lay behind. Or was it the other way around? ;)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Or was it the other way around? ;)

If I knew the answer to that, my life would be so much easier!! X-)

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

I am art-ignorant, but I found this thought-provoking and affecting.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I've had a smidge of art education, in high school and college... and I think it's over rated, at least in terms of appreciation. For that, I think living in the world overs plenting of teaching.

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Nono, leave the words as they are. I like this a great deal.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Duly noted. Thank you.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I love that very much and I'm glad you didn't flip the words around because I I think our differing states of mind often melt and blur into each other more closely than we like to admit.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I see in your gallery that you finally made We Three too. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah... "We three" was fun to do, even though, by the end, I was dying from the beigeness of it.

No one got the joke until I explained it, though, except for one person who knew the original reference.

I wonder if that's because:

a) the artsy, nerdy crowd of naarmamo doesn't identify with business types in suits (if I'd given two sci-fi geeks the heads of asses, the response might have been different),

b) they were evaluating it as "art" and were not thinking in "joke" terms (Even though several people have been posting cartoons all month -- I haven't),

c) the invention of movie and television screens changes the way we perceive ourselves in relation to our environment, or

d) all of the above.

Wodering, now, If I could make an icon out of that idea...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

True. Maybe it's my unwillingness to admit it, that makes me want to change the background...