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 p.1 #20 · ADDED: Promos for those who wanted to see. (chisel) | |
Hi Doug,
Thanks for stopping in. The piece was chiseled off, but needed to have a chipped look to meet the idiom.
I think leaving the chisel out makes the message clearer. Some guys are looking at the pattern from the chisel and rightfully saying it doesn't look like a chisel strike, reading into that a bit much, others look past the chisel, others say its a distraction.
I think everyone is right.
I didn't want that rigid chisel look, because then it would detract from the idiom which uses the word "chip". I think without showing a reason how it got chipped, it reads as a chip, and works with the blocks, and the word old.
Know what I'm saying?
As for composition, it was laid out around the chisel initially, though I like the irregularity. I didn't want to stack them, too obvious, and I didn't want to set them horizontally. This seems like they were thrown down, quickly tossed together, etc.
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) but the high contrast of the chisel draws your eyes straight away from the blocks. The chipped block is clear, I don't think we need to be told how it happened.
... but without the chisel ... all I see is OLD, the scale of the chip is so diminutive to the collective scale of the blocks spelling out the word. Also, the volume of color in the blocks commands more attention than the chip for me. The chisel's lines help point us to the lesser element, lest we miss it in favor of the scale & color of the blocks. Of course, the contrast of the chip helps pull us to it.