Week 11. Dimension. Depth. Scale.

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This giant clothespin sculpture was created by a Turkish art professor Mehmet Ali Uysal for the Festival of the Five Seasons in Chaudfontaine Park, Belgium. (Image credits: mmarsupilami)

This image is about a giant sculpture of a cloth pin.

It has lots of visual elements including dimension, space, and scales. The object we see in this sculpture is 3-Dimensional, but it is seen via our 2D screen. The perspective of the image is linear perspective, which is more dimensional. The image has more than one or two focal points, the empty space and the contrast of greens created lots of space in this image.

The main element of this image is scale. Scale is the comparing of objects to perceive size, it applies to physical objects in space, depth perception, and graphic depictions of size. In this image of a sculpture, artist purposely enlarged our ordinary small clothepin to a large scale bigger than human size. Just by perceiving one object individually, we won’t be able to tell the size of the object. But when 2 objects are compared together, we will mostly be able to tell the size of the object. We are able to tell the size of the clothepin is much bigger because of the settings and the people figures in the background. Our sense of scale depends on context, comparison, and often prior knowledge. Therefore, when irregular sized object requires some other comparisons to identify the true size. Human characters or body parts such as face or hands are often used, it is some familiar reference for comparison.