Extraterrestrial

Very minimalist.

To be honest it is a delicate balance. We could go down the routes of imagining the lines you have not written, the strokes you have not painted.

Perhaps it is more suited to an obscure poetry club? Picture the scene with a smog of cigarette smoke drifting under strobe lights as the reader sits on a stool, looking out into the darkness, barely seeing the audience. The audience anticipate the tale and only hear the words uttered by the artist.

"Other life from another planet: Alien," The stage falls silent... The lights go out and a quiet wave of clapping echoes throughout the hollow chamber.

I'm not absolutely sure how to feel about it. One side feels as if there should be more, of course that's a natural response. The other side realizes there may be the idea of hidden depth, perhaps reflecting on the dark void of outer space. Somewhere across the vast vacuum with specks of light off in the far flung distance, lights that promise warmth to contrast against the sterile swathe of icy nothingness.

Then again, it is very much open to interpretation. The reader may feel they are doing more work than the writer...

Is this like dropping a speck of ink into a glass of water and allowing the pigments to diffuse through? Each droplet will be different.

It is minimalist, so the reaction would surely have to be gauged against the experience the reader can apply to it in order for it to be evaluated.

This feels like a piece of work that can either be loved or hated due to its nature. It is either stripped down and refined, or simply a single thought by itself. I don't think it is the latter, but it does run the risk of being a bit too nebulous...

This is one piece that the reader would have to mull over to appreciate the depths... Or I could be leading myself down a 'garden path' and the writer is laughing at my vague attempts to make sense of it.

I do hope it is the former - that it was designed with the intent to allow the reader to explore properly, rather than having us compensate for what is essentially bare scaffolding.

Interesting. Certainly interesting.

Please note the 'Technique' score was '3' because there was enough evidence of technique for me to really make a proper judgement. It is 6 words long after all. Not that it's 'bad' but a lot of readers like more meat on their bone!

Impact - well you've read (hopefully!) what I've written so it can either have a sizable impact or it could be ignored, again due to the refined nature.

Originality, minimalist and abstracted work is hard to really make a call on... I liked it, not seen much else like it, but that appears to be the artists style - bare bones maybe?

Vision - we're looking for outer space, it does have vision!

I'm going to fall back on my reasoning: it is six words long and so to tease out and analyze more would no doubt lead to repetition.

There is potential and there is limitation in the same line.

The 'layers' we can explore are limited as to how much effort the observer is willing to put into it.

Ta-da!