I love the reversal of figure and ground.
Day 5
On the gates of PS 70
January 4th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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9,326 miles walked
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Who owns the stroller?
Matt! Is that your new cart?
I don’t see it. : (
look at the bottom right..you will see the girl figure is green not cut out…like all the other figures on the plate. Reversal of pattern right there.
Yeah Jeff but what about the rest of it? I’ve been trying to figure that out since Matt’s posting of this pic. The stroller being in the way kind of blocks it. But it is a good catch.
“Figure–ground reversal may also be used an intentional visual design technique in which an existing image’s foreground and background colors are purposely swapped to create new images.”
the lady is the “swap” that goes against the rest of the design.
In the example you see the two women or a vase…. So in the above you see the “playground & area” and when you look at the “green grass” instead of seeing the woman as a cut out she is “swapped” and her outline is the cutout space.
Does that help you? Hope so.
Oh, ok. I thought maybe it was the shadow on the ground looked like Skeletor.
What is PS 70 Matt?
i’m not matt..but I can reply .. In our area schools are so many..that they call them PS…Public School and then the number PS 125…. like that.