In this composition, I also focused on how to make movement appear. I created an organic shape for the hand, but used lines to trace out shapes of the moving fingers. I also used diamond shapes to represent the keys on the keyboard, but I only showed the ones closest to the fingers. I filled in the hand with black to keep it heavy, since it corresponds to the hand that does not appear moving in the original photograph. The moving fingers, on the other hand, are not colored. The whiteness of the background, then, becomes the color of the shapes; these shapes are warm and seem to want to break free from the hand. The heaviness of the colored-in hand weighs down the bottom of the composition to constrain the unlimited freedom of motion. I think the Points and Lines composition is better than this one, because I feel the diamond shapes do not have sounds as succinct as dots. Even though they are more representational of the keyboard, I feel like some motions are lost.

Human Emotion