This is an image by Barbara Kasten from her series "Studio Constructs 2007-08". On her website, she states that her aim was to photograph a "transparent plane" and its shadow in order to create abstract images. I was immediately drawn to this photograph without having any concept of perspective, scale, or reality. The image is made up of strongly geometric patterns created by light and shadow, and many of the patterns meet at a focal point at the center of the image. The shadows and warped abstract patterns create a fascinating symmetry, bisected by a solid line traveling from the center of the frame to the bottom-left corner. The left half of the image may contain a mirror, as the patterns seem to resemble a slightly distorted version of the patterns on the right half of the image.
Kasten’s use of color in this image is very minimal. Colors are created by light; a warmer yellow fills most of the picture and is bordered by a cool blue. Because the picture consists of only two muted colors, tension is created through color contrast, composition, and the angular arrows of light.
I have always been drawn to symmetry and light patterns in photographs. Her other photographs in the series are equally fascinating but did not immediately pull me in the same way that this image did, possibly due to a more asymmetrical compositional and lighting style.
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