# Set 1 critique (drawings first, questions second)

Read by the orchestrating assistant. set1/contact.png (drawings), contact_studies.png (value studies).

## Repeated habits
1. A strip composition: in all six the field is a band of vertical hatching under a blank sky, with a hard horizontal edge between them (1, 3, 6 most). This is the default's own structure (grass below, figure against sky above), so the "part of / apart from" split is again a horizontal line. My habit and the default's agree; that is a warning.
2. The grass is one texture everywhere: even vertical strokes at one density. A field as wallpaper.
3. The figure stands upright near the middle in four of six.
4. Hands leaves the lit side of the dress as paper, so a lit figure loses her contour (most in 2).

## Promising relations (pointing to what is visible)
- 2 (submerged): her lit body goes to paper and is crossed by the same strokes as the grass. She is made of the field's marks; only her dark hair and the cage read as separate. The cage is the one constructed pattern, and it is held up into empty sky. "Part of" happens in the marks, without a caption.
- 4 (silhouette): she and the cage are one dark shape; the cage's verticals repeat the grass blades' verticals, at the same scale, above the grass line. The rhyme between bars and blades is visible: the cage as pattern.
- 3 (through the cage): the bars cross both the field and her. But the cage, seen this close, reads as a structure she stands in (a pavilion), a different noun.

## Ideas that only work because of the caption
- 1 (cage in grass): the cage is drawn as clean lines and the grass as texture: two different mark families. "Bars continuous with blades" did not happen. The cage reads as a cage dropped in a field.
- 5 (lying): reads as a body in grass, a stronger and darker story than the prompt asks for; the cage becomes a clue. Drop.
- 6 (resisting): the taut line reads, but the forward arm reads as a wave, not resistance. Resistance is not visible.

## Decisions
- 2 carry (favourite). 4 carry. 3 reserve. 1, 5, 6 drop.

## Set 2 plan
2-1 develop 2: closer; grass crossing more of her; the cage high, door open.
2-2 counterexample: the same, but standing clear of the grass (the default's arrangement). What is lost?
2-3 counterexample: the same submerged figure with no cage, the hand raised empty. Is the cage doing something specific, or is it a prop?
2-4 develop 4: silhouette with the grass up to her chest; the cage at the grass top so bars and blades meet.
2-5 combine 2 and 4: backlit and submerged: her body dark among dark grass, the cage dark against the sky.
2-6 the bird: the favourite plus a bird on the cage, as every default image had. What does the bird do?