I wasn’t actually drawn to this picture at first it was so dark I kept bypassing it when I was looking at the google image page, it wasn’t until I came across the image close-up that I could make out what it was. The light value draws your eye in, but the shape is not one that is easily distinguishable from far away and once you learn that it’s a ship it is  in your face and right in front of you, the perspective and darkness really gives you the feeling like you are trapped in the canal about to cross paths with an ocean liner.

This appeals to me because of how subtle the drawing as a whole. When I first looked at the image I couldn’t understand how is was known as a piece by Harris Burdick because it looked like a regular picture of a room. It wasn’t until I noticed that the piece, like every other Burdick piece has a “supernatural” quality. The quality I’m referencing is the wing of one of the birds is flying off the wall. This piece stuck out to me because it made me think of how one little aspect of a picture can change a view about what the picture is suppose to make the viewer interpret.