Symmetry

So after this finding about Stanley Kubrick using symmetry to make an audience feel uneasy without actually realising that it is the background that is casing some subconscious confusion i thought i would have a go at creating my own symmetrical drawing and one drawn all by hand.

Although these images were intended to look slightly gloomy and sinister i do feel that the second drawing which is symmetrical does cause a different and uneasy feel. The corridor seems to appear longer and the door at the end more daunting, the lines of the carpet being symmetrical also encourage the viewer to follow them directly to the door more so that the first image all drawn by hand.

On the look out then for places that may cause this effect i noticed a road on a walk back from the train station one night and the placement of the trees seemed to create this symmetry that may appear to be unnerving and in some way surreal.