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I created a digital art piece made in Photoshop. I choose this medium because I felt like my experience was better shown than heard. In my opinion that feeling of being drawn into something unknown with a variety of other forces influencing what you're drawn to would be hard to get across through music. 

I wanted to capture that feeling of being drawn in but also to capture that sense of spiral movement in the piece. So I added the spirals that for me draw the eye to the immediate center. I smudged the spirals because the feeling of being drawn in was more hesitant and other factors seemed to blur that feeling of being drawn in. I decided to color 3 f the spirals in an attempt to mimic the feel of the bright colors that first drew me to the painting. For me, when I look at the piece, I'm immediately drawn to the center only to find the center to be slightly devoid of anything in particular. Things are happening around it and it seems like the center is a product of all the things happening around, yet there is a mystery as to what exactly is happening. 

When I first viewed the painting, it made me feel as if I was just entering the stands to watch something like a concert or a sports game. I could almost visualize the people sitting in chairs before me and the back of their heads as we stare in collective union at what was about to happen/already happening. However, later I also saw the painting as the coming together of a variety of sources to create something unknown. The stars were added to the edges to represent the variety of sources that influence the product  and to represent the anticipation one feels right before the unknown is revealed. I ran out of time before deciding whether to have the box show a stadium scene or something new and unexpected. Though, I do enjoy it being blank although it makes the painting feel slightly empty, I think it captures the feeling of mystery.