Color and Tonality: Whether in black-and-white or saturated color, the palette is restrained. Muted ochres, cold blues, and industrial grays dominate; these hues evoke urban environments, municipal decay, and the melancholy of waiting rooms and subway platforms. Where color is vivid, it is symbolic — a red tag, a yellow streetlight, the rusted orange of a chain-link fence.
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Affect theory: The work’s melancholic timbre is best described through affect; it relies on mood, tonal atmosphere, and embodied response rather than argument. Color and Tonality: Whether in black-and-white or saturated