Alisha Joys Photograph Essay

In this QEP essay, Alisha Joy how is her partial elements and style used to showcase human trafficking? (1) Is there an association in artistic style and technique that creates cubism in her photograph and use of the concept of space to her advantage in a photograph (2)? Is the artist using symbolism to provoke a philological response to create awareness and an emotional connect with the viewer? (3),’ In my perspective, Alisha Joy created the element of space to draw the views eye to mask, in using the symbol of the mask, and the use of the element of black space created a cubism aspect to the photograph. wooden box as a symbol to create an illusion of animal trapped in a cage, simply because your eye is drawn to the bright mask, and the cage.

‘Negative space may be used to depict a subject in a chosen medium by showing everything around the subject, but not the subject itself. Use of negative space will produce a silhouette of the subject. Most often, negative space is used as a neutral or contrasting background to draw attention to the main subject, which then is referred to as the positive space.” (wikipedia.org) "Dark murky color, emphasizes sadness, fear, and danger"(.strive2free.org)" The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honored theories of art as the imitation of nature."(writing.upenn.edu) and there is no evidence to support the cubist style of two-dimensional form in Alisha Joy, the technique that would indicate cubist