Art Journal Nov. 23

There was this one picture with a bunch of flowers and a black background. I walked by this picture and at first glance it made me feel warm inside because it had a lot of flowers. Then I looked at it and after I looked at it for about five seconds I started to feel cold and sad. I think it was the black of the background that slowly made me feel cold. Another reason why I probably felt good when I first looked at the picture is that the bottom of the picture was bright. The flowers were bright and so from far away I only noticed the bright part. As you got closer you could see the darker parts of the picture which were higher up. The top flowers looked like they were older because the petals were falling off and some of the flowers had holes in them. One could not see that the flowers were falling apart from far away so one could only see that it was a group of flowers. The flowers also reminded me as if they were from a funeral because the background was black. They also looked old because they were falling apart. The combination of these things made me feel happy from far away but sad when close up.