Girl in the Middle

[John2]

What originally struck me was how the shape of the window reflected the shape of the picture frames (or vice versa) but the corner of the room split the comp in two - until this young lady kindly arrived on the scene.

 

[Glenn]

Nice comp. Probably something autistic but I like the juxtaposition of the painting with the figure and the frame of the painting with the window. Those three elements alone would have been perfect but well, you know, it's me.

 

[Martin Henson]

Absolutely fantastic, the decisive moment captured

 

[John2]

Thanks Glenn ("autistic" ? or "artistic"?).

Thanks Martin.

 

[Glenn]

I have some ASD traits (as do many engineers) and I don't necessarily see things in the same way others do. Happy to think of it as artistic though, particularly if that choice was deliberate.

There is a Welsh bardic device used in poetry and other writing called cynghanedd sain. Keeping the explanation simple, you can form it with three words, two of which rhyme and two of which alliterate: Hickory Dickory Dock, Knick Knack Paddywhack and Rikki Tiki Tavy for example. In other words there is a pivot word that contains both elements.

It seems to me your photograph works in a similar way with the pivotal visual element being the portrait (which matches the figure) and the frame (which echoes the window). All of which interests me and I know that I am going to be looking for these visual relationships from now on.

 

[John2]

I can see what you mean Glenn but I can't claim to have seen it that way at the time. I just wanted something to hide the line of the corner because it was dividing the comp. None the less, thanks for the explanation. I've learned something and that's always worth while.