The Future for Less #3

Susan Turcot

2004

Pencil on paper on aluminum

11 3/4 x 16 3/4"

This piece is very cool because of the meaning in its simplicity. The people depicted are made up of mostly contour and gestural lines with some value, and the giant black image of gestural lines at the bottom of the piece creates chaotic asymmetry within the piece. The composition in important in order to show the number of people looking at this blob of dark lines in the corner. There is quite a bit of foreshortening as the picture we see is a sort of bird's-eye-view. To me, the title suggests that this work of art shows a mass of humans, easily amazed by this thing we can barely see. It seems to be nothing, but we may be easily blinded by what society tells us and how it tells us to perceive that thing.