HORT ANALYSIS

This is a piece of Art Installation, created by an artist who goes by the name of Hort. When it was made is unknown, but it was made for a magazine article, in regards to living in a "happy city". The circumstances under what it was made was unknown, but may have been about the level of happiness of citizens living in particular cities.
The artist may have used cartridge paper, which is sturdy but easily torn, but using different colours such as plain white, yellow, green, pink and orange.These colours may have been used to symbolise the positivity in a city, to reveal the vibrant side of the city, helping the viewer see the good in it. The method could have been cutting of the paper to form buildings and sticking, using Pritt stick or PVA glue, but making sure no to glue down the picture completely, so it will be easier to remove part of the paper. To make the windows line up together nicely, the artist may have pre-defined the areas they wanted to cut before doing so, measuring them with a ruler, and cutting through, using a scalpel to make the cut outs nice and  even. The scale of the work is unknown, but a best guess would be around A4 size. The size of the piece may be irrelevant, because the message of the piece would be delivered just as quickly, because of the use of different colours. The use colours may have been used emotionally, to possibly put across the artist's positive attitude towards cities, and may be trying to persuade the viewers to adopt the same attitude about the cities they live in.
My first initial reaction to the work, was that it reminded me of the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps into a world of colour from walking through a dull and grey place. And I think it has the potential to make the audience think more highly of their city. I like this piece, because it's and imaginative way of showing the positive aspects of  something without cluttering a page full of pictures showing this. And it's also original, as not many artists take up this concept and develop further to get this result. Furthermore, the method doesn't look too complicated, so it may interest others to make something similar to it.