Google Reader Response 3

As I am considering the main project for the class, one idea I had was to zoom in closely into familiar or mundane surroundings and create abstract compositions. The blog post on UrbanAutica about Heidi Specker captured my eye because of the artist’s similar compositional ideas. The artist uses familiar spaces but zooms in close enough to draw the viewer’s attention to something usually gone unnoticed. In many of Specker’s photographs she uses strong use of line to direct the viewers eye and bold light and shadow adding a further linear element. Frequently, the colors are almost monochromatic to emphasize the formal aspects rather than color. Moreover, the author points out the tangibility of the textures in the images. Many of Specker’s photographs are taken of Carlo Mollino’s house, an influential Italian architect, and the images depict the home in a close up, intimate, and almost abstracted manner. Specker asks the viewer to see the house through a different viewpoint and consequently to view Mollino through a different lens.