1) In spying eyes, a series of cracked wall is stretched into a further distance into the painting, giving it a sense of depth. The cracked walls are arranged in such a way that they take up most of the space in the painting, taking up the foreground, midground and background. The walls are painted in a zigzag manner, like a maze, showing a never-ending labyrinth that can help to lead the viewer’s eyes to the background. The walls of cracked bricks in the background are then integrated with the orange and gloomy clouds that are contrasted against the dark purple sky. There seemed to be smoke coming out of the clouds, emerging from the cracked walls from a distance far away, and then spiraling its way between the walls up towards the woman in the foreground, who is in a fetal position. The movement of the smoke and the zigzag manner of the wall is contrasted with the smooth flow of the blue cloth in an opposite direction as the tip of smoke seemed to have transformed into a form of a snake’s head, approaching the woman, who is draped and enveloped by the blue cloth floating in midair. The composition of the painting is rather haphazard, as there are eyes all over the place, all appearing to produce beams of light that come together focusing in the direction of the woman, further emphasizing the subject matter and giving a 3D effect on the painting. The clear sense of space in the painting is distorted and made larger using the non-uniform perspectives of the painting. There is also a clear distinction of negative and positive spaces being used in this painting. The foreground and middle ground are mostly positive spaces and wholesome, while the background comprises of mostly negative spaces, which is represented by the excessive use of black as the main background.
