Aside with having fun with English, you can also exercise your ability to write with serious, analytic writing projects. Instead of fun being your ultimate motivation, anticipating a personal growth in finishing the project would be what keeps a productive person like yourself to initiate such a project. Long, working hours is required.
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On page 6 of Tom Phillips' A Humument, Phillips gives viewers a setting that depicts the current position of a certain character named "Toge," by using particular, chosen words, a series of lines, and color to make somewhat of a picture, of which the viewer will observe and become interested in the story of Toge. By giving viewers and readers a setting, the reader may decide then if the story is worth reading, or if it isn't. With that rule applied, using such colors, shapes and etc, the viewer will take a sufficient amount of time in attempt of understanding the concept of the story's setting and if succeeding in understanding, or believing to understand, the reader may feel accomplished enough to keep reading the pages of the book. If the reader does not succeed, then he will not feel accomplished, and the reader may decide to ignore this particular work of art. Though, considering the amount of different shapes and colors, a viewer can conclude to many opinions on the picture. Therefore, the setting of this story can be understood in more ways than one, and can reach the interest of diverse viewers as a work of art. Considering, art is defined as the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance, and is taken interest by many, seeing that it needs to be accepted by many to be put into a museum, or even published.
Now aside from the words and the first confusion that bubbles in the viewer, the lines and color of the picture clearly stick out. The lines, except for the picture's borders, are all mostly cut off. There is also a special case with the mustard brown that flows from the top left, to the distal right. Now, the cut off lines do not combine with the line that actually intercepts it, and does not have any similarity other than being dark and/or dull in color, therefore the line is proven to a degree that it is cut off. Though the lines of the picture are only parts of shapes. These lines are connected to make shapes. For example, the brown on the top of the picture is shaped and seen as 4-sided, though it is possible that if the mustard yellow had not cut it off, the brown could have gone further down to create a longer shape, and possibly a rectangle if it hit the edge. Therefore, instead of being cut-off, it's safer to state that the shapes overlap one another. It's as if pieces of flags were placed on top of one another in a collage, and that is precisely what it looks like, country flags, probably about 3-4, are being overlapped. Though obviously, these colors match no current, known country. So If these are flags, then the areas are unknown, or do not exist. If they are not flags, then the shapes are still unknown, and may not represent anything that actually exists considering the shapes are nothing common; The possibilities are endless enough for the shapes to stay unknown, though there are more shapes that do not include straight lines and cornered edges. There's a large, noticeable, peach brown in the center of the picture, and it resembles the shape of an animal. It has legs to stand upon, a neck that extends from the scapula, and a head that points to the upper left of the picture. Also, it faces towards the end or beginning, depending on how it is looked at, of the long shape the mustard brown makes. Therefore, there is a life form in the picture, and it is in some sort of unknown environment.
Looking at the environment of the animal in the picture, it's seen to be inside of the mustard yellow, along with a mixture of many, many dots of assorted, bright colors. The yellow mustard stretches from the top left of the picture, to the distal bottom, as stated before, and holds the inhabitants of all of these bright, visible "things;" inside of the mustard yellow, there is bright red, blue, yellow, green, and all these other familiar colors. What more, is that the size of the dots change as you go down the mustard yellow's shape. From the top right, the dots are small, as if they are far away. Then, going down, the dots get bigger, as if they are closer to the viewer. This art technique resembles how someone may stand on a long, straight street, and look forward: The road will seem to get skinnier, and in this picture, Tom Phillips is trying imitate that effect of seeing a road. Then, he places the animal who travels upon this road, and it moving forward into the area that is less visible; the animal is moving forward to an area that has not been currently reached. Further more, the large red color in front of the animal seems to have no significance other than showing more of which direction the animal is going for. As if the creature was a bull, and was following the red up the mustard brown to reach some destination, or in the case of the bull and red, it is being led blindly forward to a new area along that particular road.
It is evident that the animal, the life form, is traveling on the bright road of the mustard brown, and is walking along with many other visible colors: known colors. The animal knows his surroundings, and travels upon this road that inhabits many familiar things, but it the only road which contains the familiar colors. On the outside, there are the shapes of those flags. These flags, as stated before, have dark and dull colors, and are on the outside of the mustard brown road. This gives the viewer an idea that the animal is not as familiar with the outside of the mustard brown road, and it has not decided to venture that outside world, but the outside world does exist. The picture clearly shows that outside countries and worlds do exist, but whether the animal knows this or not, is not known, for there are areas so far off of the mustard brown road. There is even a small dark blue spot on the right of the picture, not actually inside of the picture, indicating how far off these unknown areas are. And in further notice, the dark, far blue is much different from the nearby red color the animal may follow. They are totally opposite colors; the outside is completely opposite to what the animal finds familiar, and what the animal may actually seek, follows, and/or understands. Though there is a chance the animal may venture off the mustard brown road. The red color that the "bull" follows slightly sticks out of the mustard yellow road, thus indicating the animal may feel enticed to follow it off course a little in the future. Thus, the animal is following the familiar road, but may slightly wonder off the course to visit those unfamiliar places. The life form may do so, considering it walks, has a brain to do an action such as follow, and has the capacity for curiosity; Being curious of the unknown mixtures of colors on the outside.
There are more than colors in this picture, there are also words. The words of the picture are jumbled, and make no full sentences, but considering each word has a definition, a viewer may be able to develop ideas on the words themselves, and why they exist in the picture. "The Journal, writings, written, volume, writings, writings;" all around the picture, the presence of a story exists. Obviously, a story is being told in this picture, and those words may be the first clue a viewer may have to realize the existence of literally, a story to follow. On the top left, there are words such as "sophical," and "perplex." These words correlate to the direction the animal is traveling to, and can be categorized by definition. The words have to do with seeking sophisticated, complex wisdom. So, the animal is seeking some type of wisdom, and that is what the red represents in this case. The animal believes that the red is the entity he seeks, and has decided to follow it. "Dejected" is another word used near the top right. It means depressed in spirits; disheartened. This indicates the animal is slightly disturbed, and has been motivated to follow this red entity; The source of his motivation to travel, is due to depression, and the counterattack to his depression. Lastly, there are a jumble of words at the bottom right of the picture, words that are mainly in the areas the animal has already walked by in the mustard brown road. These words consist of "only one half of the, toge, story, the first, scenes and feelings." Then, in organizing the words into sentences, and filling the blanks the sentences make, the new understanding of the words of the bottom of the page is, "the first scenes and feelings in toge's story is only half of the story," or something along those lines. To prove this, by looking at the animal's position of being in the middle of the picture, it shows that toge is indeed halfway on the road, as if he has done half of his life, and life's story. Furthermore, in reading and viewing the other pictures of The Humument, the character named, "Toge," is more evident. In fact, it is the only "word" in this picture, and there are other clues such as "myster, and T." Myster is pronounced mister, and Toge begins with a T, thus in pronouncing myster and T, the pronunciation is Mister T, the character in this story.
In understanding all the clues Tom Phillips has left inside of the picture, and the page number of the picture, it is clear that this is the beginning of an adventure for Mr. Toge. Toge became disturbed to some degree, and counteracted to find truth, wisdom, and new meanings, thus he follows the red entity that he finds familiar and interesting. Though due to the nature and placement of the red entity, there is a foreshadowing that Toge, the main life form in the picture, the animal, rather, human, may venture off his familiar course, and find new ideals, cultures, or other unfamiliar entities of which he may find interest in. That is part of the setting in Mr. Toge's story.
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