What does this picture suggest ? What feelings does it evoke in the reader?

 

Imagine using it in a journal or as basis for an essay/ seminar.

 

Shadows are everywhere.  (Spectral vision, haunting, repression) ( Conflictual realms)

Light is limited. ( Incomprehension, anxiety, illusion, blindness, duplicity )

The woman’s gaze has been arrested by the ‘murder reward’ poster. ( Guilt, fear, impending doom, retribution, secrecy)

Artefacts are prominent. ( Female as commodity object, falsification of public mask, inhumanity of humanity)

Darkness threatened to engulf light. ( haunting, fate, determinism, death)

Clock foregrounded ( erosion of time, telos, linearity versus spatiality, destiny )

Woman’s neck ( fetishism, bodily sacrifice, corporeality, eroticism, violence, unknowability)

Gloom ( melancholy, death, dullness, boredom, degeneration, decay, finality, thanatos)

 

What an easy way to brainstorm the  issues surrounding a novel in a visual and kinaesthetic way!

 

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