text assignment

For the text assignment I used the words "hugs" and "cracked" in order to create a contrast. The word "cracked" makes me think of a harsh and loud sound which usually means that something has broken whereas "hugs" is a word that conjures up images of love, care, and togetherness. The contrast is found both in the sound of the word when spoken and in its meaning.

To further the contrast I made sure to use both warm (marigold orange and copper) and cool (bluish-grey) colours. One would suspect that the warm colours would be in the "hugs" and the cool colours in the "cracked" To create interest I flipped this assumption and so "cracked" is warm and "hugs" is cool. This alludes to how being together and being broken are so often one and the same in life, especially when it comes to relationships with each other.

Another component of this piece is that "hugs" are close and overlapping, forming a unity, whereas "cracked" is repeated in a straight line going on forever. Contrast is created between the cyclical movement of "hugs" and the linear movement of "cracked".