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Balance
Designers, painters, photographers etc. often refer to an image,
page or form looking balanced. In this instance balance is a subjective
description suggesting that the image, page or form appears comfortable.
Not too heavy, not lopsided, equally spaced, that the elements create
a harmonious feeling or composition.
Everybody remembers being a kid and leaning back on the back two
legs of a chair. There is a very special feeling when the body is
suspended momentarily neither falling forward or back. The moment
the chair inches back the body reacts by throwing legs and arms
forward to counterbalance giving a feeling of butterflies in your
stomach.
Skateboarders, surfers, tight rope walkers, unicyclists and trials
riders are constantly teetering on the edge of balance, movement
and momentum keeps them from falling. Subtle movements and adjustments
are required to maintain control, they are often twitchy and seemingly
erratic, yet they are intuitive reactions to maintain control.
Balance is the striving for stillness created by the constant adjustment
and movement that brackets the point of balance. The balance of
form, colour, texture, composition, sound etc. becomes more tangible
with the understanding of real un-subjective balance.
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