Positive/Negative Space

Communication Arts, May/June 2014, Page 205

This composition was made by Victo Ngai for a horror novelette by Dale Bailey. It displays a party before the end of the world. There are two different viewpoints to this composition. For the first, the background shows how people act "carefree" before anything bad is going to happen. But then in the center, the dancer commits suicide because she already knows the apocalypse is happening. For the second, the background show how people want to live their lives before the apocalypse catches up to them. Then, they see the dancer commit suicide and sort of embrace that as the "normal thing to do" in their current situation. Very interesting composition.