image essay #8

Inka Essenhigh

This piece by Inka Essenhigh caught my attention because I couldn’t help but get the feeling of sheer comfort when looking at it. Inka did an amazing job capturing the feeling he was going for. The way he portrays the main character in lazy sleeping pants laying with pillows everywhere and on top of three mattresses that sink into a mattress or pillow type floor.

Inka was able to create an outstanding feeling of depth by the way he used more detail with larger objects in the foreground and faded the background to white. He was able to carry your eye throughout the piece’s entirety by using the pillows in the foreground that then lead your eyes up to the main object in the middle of the page. Although, the characters that are fanning the main character seems to be out of place. This could be because he was trying to portray some sort of guilty feeling for being such a sloth. Therefore he portrayed the fanners as demon type creatures instead of a more comfortable creature.

All and all I find this piece very inviting, and maybe that’s not necessarily a good thing. Being so comfortable could be a bad thing if you have other things to get accomplished. I would say that Inka’s idea when creating this piece was a little more on the lines of a blissful situation or feeling.