VisCom: NY Times Article Response

In this article by Laura Fields, I found the juxtapositions to be a great concept and daily routine.  It's finding these by chance that makes it all the better.  Gives you an "I figured it out!" sort of moment.  But I think that narratives formed by chance and narratives formed on purpose are genuine. different.  In our dot book projects, I found that if you just let things go, some things will inevitably play off each others composition or content.  However, when they were purposely edited/altered to fit with each other, the feeling just wasn't the same.  They were to perfect, and I think the feeling you get when running across narrative in juxtapositions by chances is ruined when it is created purposefully.  It feels stagnant in a way.  It's the same with our line exercises.  When two images line up too much, or are too similar, they don't bounce off each other well.  It's the slight differences that make a better composition, unless you want a strict and tightly regimented piece. Laura Fields has discovered the same viewer's reaction.  It's interesting to find them, but it's the chance that these might be accidents that make them far more interesting.   The use of these narrative juxtapositions however, can greatly enhance a piece in how it portrays its information to the viewer, so I'm definitely a fan of these newspaper pieces.  I look forward to using juxtaposition in my work as well.