image taken from: http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/GlennLigon/Images
This next picture is to examine the use of positive and negative space in light. Human's will always perceive darker colors as being behind or farther away from lighter colors.This picture Hands is a perfect example of this the only indications of depth present are the use of light in shadow, and of overlapping. The sizes of the hands don't vary that much so size isn't really an indicator. Light is used to reveal depth here by creating a background of darkness and a foreground of white lit hands. Oddly enough the degree of light an object receives is not related to how close of far away from us. the closest hands have varying degrees of light and the small faraway hands are both brightly lit and covered in shadow. Still the presence of the light allows use to see the details of the hands and to help with our perception of depth this means that closer objects have more details and objects that are further away have less.
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