Kayla Daniels: An Intertextual Analysis

Between five different frames displayed in the gallery, as I walked down the aisle, this artwork caught my attention. Just looking at this artwork, I could easily tell that it was broken body parts flowing all across the space, colors are nearly identical, and gold wrap surrounded as a frame of the artwork, as well as a light bulb falling next to a dolphin shaped element. Once I got closer to the artwork, I started to think deeply into what I can see in a connection of what I identified by looking. The artist Kayla Daniels used different unrelated elements in her artwork to make the viewer see the artwork deeply rather than looking at it. As I saw this artwork deeply I began to think that there is meaning behind the broken body parts flowing around with different elements, which could describe a certain experience the artist had gone through. After a minute of observing, I could see that the artist used the method of movement to show that the floating body parts and elements were falling into a different world or space

Artist Karen Daniels used unity in colors such as hue colors with a black background to create a contrast. The artist chose prisma color pencils on a black paper therefore, the texture seems to me as a realistic form that represents and old picture being captured for a memory. Initially, two colors in the artwork caught my attention such as purple and blue, those two colors made the art piece setting appear to me as a dream. The way the artist drew this piece it forces you to directionally look down into what the elements are falling into. I realized that the artist chose to add a light bulb into the art piece to emphasize the meaning of ideas and thoughts. The artist could have used a bright color to present the meaning of bright ideas and bright future, however the artist chose dark colors to represent the internal changes and