RHYTHM

When most people think of rhythm they think of music, they think of the repetition or the flow of the beats as music while progresses along it path. The same can be said of rhythm when it comes to the principles of design. Rhythm in design can be defined as the repetition or alternation of elements often when defined by the intervals between them.  Rhythm establishes patterns and textures, it can create movement in a design and can evoke different emotion depends on the type of rhythm the designer is trying to capture or create. Rhythm is the flow of a piece in my opinion and how that flow is designed determines how the viewer will feel emotionally. Rhythm is the repetition of shapes forms and lines in a manner that creates movement and is for this reason I selected the photo I took while visiting Chicago this summer while on vacation.

The Picture I shot I feel fairly represents the heart beat of the city of Chicago. The buildings all vertically alike with evenly spaced vertical pillars rise and fall like the lines of an EKG meter measuring ones heart beat in the hospital. The eye travels down between the buildings of through the streets or as I interpret them the blow flow of the or life line of the city. The two cannot live with out one another, without the blood the heart cannot pump and with the heart the blood cannot flow. The traveling cars and streets provide the life force for the buildings and the flow of the heartbeat of the city. But with all life is eventual death in this photo death is resenting by the ending of the buildings into a vast void of open light devoid of any elements of rhythm or life, just emptiness. I feel the angle of the picture fairly represents this rhyme seen in most cities of straight lines and vertical buildings, it may not be the most radical and interesting beat but it is still and beat that represents the overwhelming authority one is shadowed by when living in or visiting a city, one is in awe of its overwhelming power. That is why the rhythm I feel mostly in photo is authority, structure and power.