As a whole, the gallery "Adapting Spaces" was very amusing. It seemed as if every artists' work had story lines to them. The first setup of pictures by John Mann told a story of a hitchhiker. First he had an image of flowers, then he had the Travelor, Lone Tree and Sleeping spot. This to me was a story line showing the man, then a tree and then a tree with a cardboard sleeping area under it. This artist did not use borders forcing the viewer to focus on the images. Daniel Kariko did not use frames or borders at all and I thought that was very appealing because all of the other works in the gallery had borders or frames. He did his theme on "Disappearing Landscapes". Tracy Longley-Cook used all black and white images with white borders and black frames which went very well together. Her images were most appealing to me because they were a bit sad as well as boggling. Her theme was "piecing the world together". Her goal was to have the images seem as memories in and out of focus. Ryan Adrick had the most confusing pieces. His setup seemed to show a person and then a place. This was hard to understand for me. At first I thought that he was showing a person and then where they lived, but after observing long enough that did not seem to be the case.
The colors in this image are solely black and white. The artist was using in and out of focus in this piece. The pattern i see used is repetition of cracked ground. This image is smaller than the rest and uses a large white border along with a thin black frame to draw the viewers focus to the image.
The image "Planting season" drew my attention for many reasons. I think the image is a meaning of growing and starting over, planting new goals. To me, it is a matter of remembering what you've started and watching your achievements as they progress.
