I chose to analyze this image of a face contracted out of words. I thought the figure ground of the white words against the black space highlighted the features of the face, like the lips, nose, and eyes. The negative space is black and is clearly identified against the white, which is the positive space. The viewer is able to read the words if you concentrate on what the letters are spelling. The simple white against black contrast makes it so the image isn’t too chaotic and the viewer can clearly read the words, see the face that is created, and understand the message the artist is trying to portray. There is no clear, square framing in this image, although I consider the framing the outline of the face because the words are constricted within the lines of the face structure. I also see that the negatives space is creating the eyes. There is more space between the words, “rusty” and “nothing” which draws the eyes towards that thick black space.

This image was taken from Lawrence Ma’s blog. It was involved in a typography study that he analyzed.

Also the same effect created the outline of the lips and nose. A slightly thicker negative space is created by the separation of words and it creates a line resembling the outline of a nose and lip. I also like how the forehead was created. The artist created the forehead by making it smaller than the cheekbones. It gives the face a more distraught and serious expression, yet all that was done is add more negative space by narrowing the frame of the forehead. Another aspect of the image that stood out to me was that the letters where different sizes. This helped create the image of the face, and gave a three-dimensional scale to the image, plus adding depth as well. The other element that I liked about the  image was that it was symmetrical, even though the face was made out of all kinds of different words that were different lengths. The artist made the framing symmetrical as well as the words, so the different words didn’t throw off the symmetrical aspect of the face.