Think outside the boxes

Terrain was a really cool and unique experience, both as a volunteer and as a visitor.  First off lets talk about that building!  The building is in downtown Spokane, and for every other day of the year there is nothing that happens inside of it.  So there, as you can imagine, is a lot of character within its brick walls.  

Initially when you walk in it just looks like a building that once was an office building, but every level you go up gets a little more interesting.  The first floor has two rows of small office rooms on the edges with columns in the middle.  The second floor gets a little more interesting because there are balconies that a person can observe from.  There is also a garage door in the back to leads to the back alley, kind of like a secret entrance.  The third and final floor is a beautiful brick room with twenty foot ceilings, the beams are exposed, and there missing glass in a couple of the windows…adding to its vintage look.  This third floor is where the piece that I want to talk about resided.

This piece by artist David Duescher was certainly an “eye catcher” with its dark background and popping silver boxes.  The piece had a black background with carefully drizzled and splattered colors adding a unique irreproducible artwork.  To top it all off there were very organized silver three-dimensional boxes starting in the bottom right corner and ending all the way in the top left corner creating a strong movement diagonally across the piece.  

While the chaotic swirls and blobs created a really good balance with a strong movement from the bottom left to the top right corner of the piece.  I think that this piece really caught my attention at first because of the contrast the silver had with the rest of the piece.  However upon further inspection the disorganized background really added an interesting dimension to the piece.  There are very organized boxes on top of this chaotic background.  It combined sharp edges with smooth edges, soft colors with a sparkling color, and left to right but also right to left movement all within one canvas.  This piece was so interesting to me because of the mastery of balance, shape, color, and form that David displayed within this piece of art.