Melena Nicholson - Week 8 Color

This is Jackknife by Christian Patterson. The photo is of a rusty, yellow jackknife protruding out of a dirty, empty wall. The picture is pretty monochromatic with some yellows, browns, and reds. The point of view is looking slightly up and 45 degrees to the right of the knife, which is centered in the photo. My eyes look to the knife, follow a crack on the wall then up to the top left at a dark patch on the wall, in a diagonal motions. The diagonal path adds tension to the knife stuck in the wall. The grubbiness and cracks on the wall also add tension, but the monochromatic color scheme relieves a lot of the tension. The lighting looks natural and is coming from the side, maybe a window.
The jackknife appears to have been thrown at the wall and stuck in tight, right above some red splattered design, that alludes to being blood. I like this photo because of the gradual change in colors on the wall. The yellows, reds, and grays are balanced around the photo evenly in patches that fade into the wall. The sharp rusty knife stabbing the wall is cool too.