P. 145 Seeing 1&2

1. Hirsch does a very detailed job in picking out each detail of the house making it seem like facial features of a person, from the roof, the windows, the door, and even the color of the house. The house in this picture sticks out from the point of view in terms of scale the house is giant and towering over everything in the picture, even though the only participants in the picture are the house, train tracks, and the sky. For my eyes the sky which was done with such grace catches my eye the most the shadow on the house relishes my eyes away, and until I look very closely I can't even see the train tracks. Hirsch does a great job in eloquently reinforcing the simple details of the painting making them major.

2. The features of the house such as the roof, the windows, and the shadow the house casts has been personified into more human like features and emotions drawn from these seemingly normal architectural features. Hirsch repeats certain phrases where the house appears to be holding it's breath underwater, and its also ashamed of itself. By simply repeating these lines it hammers home the theme of Hirsch's vision. Initially I just see a lonesome house from the train tracks, Hirsch adds such a dreary description of the house where it turns into a dark and almost haunted in a sense.