Rather Not
Common Fates:
Are the common fates of the groupings made clear, and how? What does the title suggest to  you? How have do the disparate elements coalesce into a unified composition? What does the title suggest to you?
i am going to refer to these shapes as leaves (green) and twigs (orange).
The leaves and twigs are the two distinct groups of shapes. There are 3 common fates here. The leaves are traveling horizontally on an implied line that runs across the paper from the bottom left to the top right or from the top right toward the bottom left, their common fate being at either corner of the paper. We then have two groups of twigs, one group of 5 twigs pointed vertically and the other group of 2 pointed horizontally.Â
Though the shapes are very different, the colors the artist chose immediately made me think of nature, which lead to my decision to refer to the shapes as âleaves and twigs.â The artist also chose to incorporate the same amount of shapes in each group; there are seven âleavesâ and seven âtwigs.â This even amount of objects makes the piece feel balanced, although asymmetrical.
The title of this piece is Rather Not. After looking at the piece for a while, I realized that each leaf has a âtwigâ connected to it and that the horizontal twigs look as if theyâre laying down, while the vertical ones seem to be standing. I made the assumption that the two that appear to be laying down, or traveling to the right of the page, could be representative of someone having chosen to give up (lay down) or leave (move to the right), or this could possibly represent the artists âdecisionsâ and one group might be going a different direction to represent things that the artist chose they ârather notâ do.Â
