Power of Words by Mary Paulusma. She made this in 2007 as a class assignment while studying typography. 

For my visual example I chose a piece called “Power of Words” by Estranged Illusions. I chose this piece because I was drawn to it very quickly. With the high contrast and very vivid color elements that are displayed throughout the composition. This image is fully made up of text but uses it in a way that forms the very prominent outline of a hand doing “rock on” in sign language.

In this chapter we studied point, line and plane which I feel like this piece uses each element in some way or another, but primarily line and plane. I found that if you zoom in a little closer to the image you can see that they are not just random words stuck together that starts to form the hand. In most of the cases within the composition it is a sentence or saying strung together that forms a line of its own. Not only did I find the line factor in that way I saw it through the use of negative space in the piece. On the outer contour line there is plenty of “white” or negative space so to speak, but we are still able to fill in the line with our minds because of the way it flows. Since the work is very recognizable it is easy to understand the way that the piece is moving. Another area where line was found was in the black border around the whole picture, this gives the work a sense of depth.

Plane was the next primary factor in this work, of course it is very clear from the start that there is a very large plane in which the whole composition was made on. The white space that is making the whole work come to life and stand out. It made me think as if a hand was being held in front of a wall or window because it is just open and empty space.

I think that this work is very symmetrical for the most part. If you were to put a line down any particular side of the work and fold it, the work would stay pretty balanced for the most part. I think the use of color as well helped balance out the work quite a bit as well. If the whole hand was made of only variations of the color red it wouldn’t be quite as eye catching without the black that makes it stand out.

While looking at this work it was easy to see that most of the font was scaled either smaller or larger. This is clear because it can be difficult to read where the text is very tall compared to where the text is much more short. You can also see significant variations in the thickness of each text.