image taken from: http://www.pbs.org/art21/images/trenton-doyle-hancock/rememor-with-membry-2001?slideshow=1
Shadows give art depth so its very strange to look at artwork that doesn't use any shadow. In Trenton Doyle Hancock's Rememor with Membry you can tell there is a foreground and background due to the use of overlapping and different sizes of the trees, but often the forest to all be on one plane. The shadows and levels of light are all the same which is impossible in a real forest. There are darker edges on the trees to give them a certain three-dimensionality but nothing else. This piece is a good example of how important light and shadows are for placement and helping us figure out just where an object is located in space.
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