This image is a perfect example of a figure/ ground reversal. One person can see a young woman with a hat, looking away. Another person may not see this younger woman but an older woman looking forward. It is very difficult to go back and forth switching from figure to ground. However, it is this technique that can make a viewer want to look at the image longer until he or she is able to spot both images. The lines that make up the hat and feather have all the same thickness. If there was a variety of length and thickness to the lines, the viewer would be able to see texture in the hat and the feather. The balance between white and black are very even, but there is no gray to balance this image out even more. The positive shapes of the hat and face are formed by contour lines. If shading were added to the face and the hat, the entire image would look more realistic.
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