Imagine you could enter this artwork. How would you describe this setting? What would the temperatur

Imagine you could enter this artwork. How would you describe this setting? What would the temperature be? Is there anything else around you?The whole image is primarily shades of grey, black, and brown. The undulating groundline fills the lower quarter of the image and the rest is filled with a sky that becomes darker the higher up in the image we look. Small red, blue, yellow, and purple flecks dot the sky like stars. I hear the sound of wind in a desert when I look at this image, but stillness can have many sounds. What do you think there might be?In the center of this setting is a figure. How would you describe the body language? How would you describe their expression? The figure stands, feet firmly planted on the ground, legs far apart as though she has stopped mid-stride. Her arm hangs at her side and her head turns to look at us. I can never decide what emotions are present on her face. Is she disturbed by our presence? Are we being judged? Or is the expression more neutral, passively observing us?Draped from the neck to the calves of this figure is a sheer, diaphanous garment with yellow-white dots that mirror the starry sky. The cloth hangs closely to the figure’s body, creating a shadowy silhouette, but suddenly floats away from the body at the hips and legs. A yellow-white line curves from the middle-left of the composition, becomes blue and pink, and disappears into the figure’s hand. What is this line that the figure holds? Is it a string? Is the figure drawing a line in the same way the artist has created this image through line and shading?Very faintly behind this central figure is another shadowy outline, barely visible - at first glance it looks like just a darker space around the central figure, but it can also look like the outline of a frontal body: two shoulders facing us squarely, arms hanging down on either side. The artist has included shadowy figures in the backgrounds of her other works - is this also another figure? If so, what is this figure’s relationship to the person in the foreground?This work, entitled Journey I, is a lithograph, a type of print, by Minna Resnick. Resnick has described her work as exploring communication - both verbal and body language - as well as the interior life of women more broadly. Resnick shares that she is intrigued by the elusive nature of communication and the ways in which it relies on historical and cultural circumstances in order to be understood. In a work like this, which lacks many clear historical or cultural reference points, how do we understand the subtle body language of this figure? To what type of journey might the title of this work refer? How would a different setting change our understanding of the person’s body language? Share your reflections in the comments below, and explore  other works by Minna Resnick in our open collection.Posted by Christina MarinelliMinna Resnick (American, born 1946). Journey I, 1975. Lithograph. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 77.235. © artist or artist’s estate (Photo: image courtesy of Minna Resnick) -- source link

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