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Artist : José Dávila

Title : Topologies of Belief

Date: 2011

Medium:  Pictures

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Location: Mexico

3. Subject/ Inconography

                This piece of art work takes picture of different landscapes and places with pieces cut out.  The concept of this piece is whether or not we can fill in the blanks. The subject is different places and what they lack when parts are cut out.

4. Style/Technique

                I really like how the artist chose to put the pictures into black and white. I think this shows that even with the absence of color we can still make sense of the art. The cut outs give a sense of texture that make it seem to me like the cut outs were further in the distance than the rest of the picture, giving the feeling that they are less important, therefore they can be taking out and the pictures still have meaning.

5. Significance/ Function/ Purpose

I think the purpose of this piece is to show that even without knowing everything we make assumptions. We see this a lot in our culture, when we don’t know the whole story we begin to infer, not always is what we infer correct though. I think this piece is trying to say that while sometimes we can figure out what is missing, other times we can be completely wrong. This is shown through how some of the pictures it is totally obvious what has been cut out and in others it is more difficult. – p.s. sorry ms. Genesky, interpreting art is not my thing.