Polarity

                We a figure, a lone piece of art, against a harsh and contrasting background. The figure is a vibrant and derived from a cultural significance of a people, while its back drop is a battered and poverty ridden, slum looking shack. The artist may or may not have meant for this kind drastic change in tone from figure to its living space, but from the way it is crafted with its arms up in a yielding fashion in front of this foreboding looking building makes one think it was placed here with purpose and designed intently upon sitting in a place like that.  At the same time it looks as though a piece is missing from the left hand side but this could have been intentional.

                I speak to my very soul of finding the light in a dark place. Seeing a bright and out of place work of art in this otherwise dingy and ugly landscape provokes thought and feeling to run through  me. Stopping us from going somewhere unpleasant or maybe even dangerous, this run down building plays ay my feeling the harshness of the world and the light one individual can shine out onto a darkened landscape. It is this very nature of their difference, being part of what makes this piece, so moving. Polar opposites in color and tone he stands to tribute his heritage and his people while providing a powerful social context and to view him from.

Taking the image for face value so quickly  think gave it meaning without originally knowing what it was from made me perhaps elf impose values I would like to see in myself. It gave me inspiration and a thought flow perhaps completely an inner monologue of things I felt and placed upon a simple picture.