Parkland Art Museum

Parkland Art Museum, Digital print by Peggy Shaw "Hover" (Deep Mapping 4.2), 2007
I found this print to be a calm, quieting, serene scene with a spark of ingenuity accomplished by using an out-of-the-ordinary viewpoint. The edges of the design look like a thick pane of old glass that has slowly distorted on the edges. It feels like you're looking through a window into another time and place. The surprise is the skeleton leaf "stuck" to the window. The veins of the leaf point to the stem which leads your focus down the path into the woods.
Unity may be seen in the proximity and repetition of the orbs seen only on the path. The entire composition is in shades of black and white. The trees continue the unity principle with their vertical orientation. The focal point is the skeleton leaf with emphasis by size and placement at the "front" of the picture. Further emphasis is shown by the directional clues given by the stem and the path created by the orbs lying on the ground. The orbs create a path by slowly diminishing in size and separation. The design is asymmetrically balanced by the shapes of the clearly defined leaf versus the blurry background. The leaf's area of the composition being a small portion as compared to the background area. Rhythm is very subtly introduced with faded concentric circles that can be seen in the background of the trees and resemble tree rings - signs of nature's beat. The design is a great example of all of the design principles we've discussed so far.