'Untitled' is a piece that really stood out for me;I instantly liked it. It has different textures and layers ultimately mixed together to create a beautiful canvas. There are two main colors to the entire piece: a teal-ish blue and a warm red. Looking at the piece as a whole, the blue represents a house and the red represents concrete outside of the house. Different textures and fabric was pasted on the house to represent windows and such.
In the piece, there are four doorsteps, but only two doors in front of two of the doorstep. A third doorstep led to a window, and a fourt doorstep(closest to the left) led to nothing-only the outside of the house. I found this to be interesting, and I feel it represents public life vs. private life There's a lot of interest of public life when knowing about someone elses' private life, however, that information is available to a limited amount of people(the two doors). The doorstep leading to a window represents the curiousness of public and private life, and the doorstep leading to nothing represents the blockage there is between the two.
There is one door out of the two that is placed more in the middle, and seems bigger and more obvious to be a door. This door is half plaid-fabric and painted half-blue. I feel this represents the fact that the home is split between two sides. The left side, with the plaid fabric, represents a mysterious, yet livlier side of the home. This side also had more texture to it. There are glimpses of two elephants on this side, and they have dotted textures. Also, there is a 'checkered' pattern created over the area these two elephants are in. I feel that this brings life to the elephants(the only form of life on the portrait) as well as stating more energy towards that side of the house.
The right side of the house has more of a typicalness to it. There's not too much of different textures to it, and the colors seem to be constant. This may be the 'calmer' side to the house, and perhaps the side of the house that is presentable to the public world.
Going back to public life vs. private life, I feel the right side of the house symbolizes the fact that many people are wary of the way they present themselves publicly, however there is a deeper, more lively REAL side to who they are-represented by the left side of the house. This also makes sense when thinking about the doorsteps. The two doorsteps which lead to actual doors/entrances are located on the more typical side of the house on the right side, and two doorsteps which do NOT lead to doors are located on the more mysterious side to the house on the left side. The right side represents a 'front' to the public world, ultimately, but the left side represents the deepest parts of private life, and is limited to few.
The elephants on the left side of the house could refer to the 'big elephant in the room' saying. If the house represents the personal life of a person, the part of the life which is unknown to many could be the 'elephant'-information that the person knows but is unseen to everyone else. The elephants are also very unique-they have detailed dots on them. This could represent the individuallity of this part of the person.
There is a drip of blue paint leading down to the red 'concrete' of the piece. I feel like this represents the mixing of personal life and public life. The two not mixing is ultimately inevitable, but there are ways to keep personal information you want to hide away from the public.
Thinking more about this piece, I feel that the color blue was chosen for the house because it symbolizes a sense of comfort and safeness. The red on the concrete represents danger from the outside world. This piece relates to the world in my view because public life versus private life are inevitably mixed in our lives;people are constantly coming in and leaving. We cross paths with so many faces on a daily basis, however there are very few, if any in some cases, who really understand us individually.
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