Concepts:
- Form & Line
- Sculptural poses that emphasize silhouette or contour
- Architectural echoes — body aligned with railings, shelves, or civic geometry
- Diagonal tension, curved repose, or vertical assertion
- Texture & Surface
- Skin against concrete, fabric, foliage, or glass
- Grain, grit, softness — tactile contrast between subject and environment
- Use of depth-of-field to isolate or blend texture
- Light & Shadow
- Chiaroscuro — dramatic contrast to stage emotional cadence
- Soft ambient light to hold intimacy
- Shadow as framing device or emotional veil
- Gesture & Motion
- Reach, fold, lean, twist — body as emotional punctuation
- Implied movement — wind in hair, shifting weight, civic rhythm
- Collapse held in rhythm — sculptural repose, not slackness
- Colour awareness
- Tonal harmony — skin tones with urban palettes
- Colour contrast — red coat on grey concrete, blue jeans against green foliage
- Emotional temperature — warm vs cool staging
- Environment
- Civic backdrop — supermarket, bus stop, café, park
- Public vs private tension — nudity staged in routine spaces
- Environmental rhythm — repetition, signage, urban texture
- Framing
- Concealment — behind glass, fabric, shadow
- Containment – doorways, windows, fences, shelves, or shadows to hold the subject.
- Negative Space – Leaving room around the subject to breathe, pause, or isolate.
- Directional Framing – Using lines, light, or environment to guide the viewer’s eye.
- Duality
- Juxtaposition: Nude vs clothed, organic vs industrial, soft vs hard
- Complementarity: Gesture echoing environment, colour harmony, emotional mirroring
- Reflection: Literal (mirrors, glass) or metaphorical (pose echoing civic rhythm
- Emotion & Gaze
- Direct gaze — assertion, invitation, refusal
- Averted gaze — introspection, containment
- Emotional literacy — not performance, but presence
- Stillness & Subtlety
- Quiet poses — seated, reclined, folded
- Minimalism — stripped-down composition, soft gesture
- Emotional pause — not emptiness, but held breath