Visual Analysis

Viewing this piece, the first element that catches your eye is the large portrait of Lady Gaga from her famous Born this Way cover art... but something is different about it. It isn't a tradition flat photo, it looks like it was painted. The classic black and white photo with her iconic red lip is altered in such a way that it looks like it was created with ink. Coming out of the left side of Lady Gaga's head there is a winding multi color red tube looking path winding down the page. The composition of this piece includes predominately the golden triangle, radiating and leading lines. The colors that immediately catch my eye is that red path that matches Lady Gaga's lips, next is the soft pinks and blue in the back, then the stark black and white bottom corners. It is a quite complementary scheme. The piece is composed in such a way that once my eyes leave Lady Gaga, they follow the path winding down and notice the trickling printed cutouts of trending styles and memes. By creating a triangle like "vortex" my eye is forced to look from top to bottom and back around again.

After initially looking at this piece, I started noticing a theme of birth. The path way winding down to what I referred to as the vortex really reminds me of the innards of a body, like the intestines and the triangle shape makes me allude to the birth canal. Even the colors look like the pinks and red of a human body. You can also think of the baby pinks and blues in the background as the two sexes.  The bottom corners are confusing at first but after looking closer I notices phrases hidden such as "set in stone" and "che sara sara" (which means "what will be will be" in Italian). All the words and phrases continue to allude back to the theme of biology and birth and fate. The black and white colors and just classic basic color, something very clean cut and irrefutable. I think the artist wants us to understand that no matter what happens you, you are born the way you were supposed to be in that exact moment of time.