Post Secret Response

The post card that I was most drawn to was the image of people's legs in a parking lot.  I found the swirling effect that the artist did really interesting and it made me want to take a closer look.  On this card the author wrote, "Sometimes I try to convince myself that the reason I have no friends is because I'm so beautiful everyone is too intimidated to approach me."  The creator of this text is explicitly stating that they have no friends, but he or she is also implicitly claiming that she lies to her self to lessen the pain of being friendless.  By stating this the creator is appealing to the viewer's emotions, which is why I think the author aimed her post card at his/her peers. It seems like the artist really wants to be noticed, so by creating this card I think she is trying to communicate that desire. If those people were to read the card then maybe they would feel sorry for her and become her friend.  Also by writing her text in this way I think the creator of this post card is a young female, because those are the people who care most about their self image. Teenage girls in particular obsess about how they look and what others think of them, so by stating that her beauty is what drives people away from her the artist is trying to convince herself that she is just as intimidating as the beautiful girls on magazine covers. I think this is why the artist had the image blurry: to show her lie.  She is not really seeing the world the way it is but through a blurred perspective, so she created that same effect for the viewer.  I also found it interesting how the image became clear around one persons feet.  The swirling throughout the post card made it look like the image was revolving around this one part.  Initially this made me think the artist was conveying that he/she was the center of the world.  If you just view the card for it's content you could think the girl is selfish and snobby, but when you look deeper into the meaning you come up with an array of possibilities.