My first impression is depressing and scary. The first thing I wondered about was why the exit sign laying on the floor?

My first impression was "Why is the exit sign laying on the floor?" My second was, what exactly is this trying to communicate? Sorry, I'm not sure that I "get it".

The image is big and stark. There isn't enough visual information, that I can see, to explain the combination of the open door that is apparently vertical, the exit sign as the others have commented, and the reason for the water at the bottom. They are all weird connections for no apparent reason.

Hey everyone, thanks for the impressions--that's exactly what I needed to know.

What about this way:

Perspectives

(Sorry Webby, for the large image earlier. When you changed it to a link, I think there was an extra space added to the url--it's not loading now.)

Perhaps a bit more info about the brief you're trying to meet?

My viewpoint; Firstly, the second image makes no sense now that the second chair has been added stuck to the wall/floor.

The Exit sign implies that the only way out is down - i.e, to Hell.

The scale is wrong - you have a large window, close to the floor, with a thick wall, yet no indication of bars or other blockage. The chair is very small. Surely the reason the chair is vacant is that the recent resident has just walked out through that large open window?

As I said, more info about the brief you're meeting would be necessary before anyone can give a comprehensive answer on whether it's a good image or not, but my first impression is that it's not a poster and it's not a logo - I'm not quite sure what it is.

Sorry!

Regards,

Pete.

I viewed the second image first and saw it completely differently. What you guys think is the floor, I saw as the wall, with an opening in the roof. Not sure what the exit sign was saying. I thought the chair on the right was actually just in motion across the room.

Looking at it again it can't be a wall because the perspective is wrong. But it doesn't look like a floor either.

So if you wanted something to make me think, you had it. But I don't really know what you were trying to get across.

Thanks again to everyone for the feedback. Its interesting that I'm getting back very different feedback here than elsewhere--but allow me to tell this picture's story:

I originally made the image without either chair. Thus, all you had was a hole in the ceiling, some 10 meters above, and an "exit" sign which points to it in a kind of mocking irony. Admittedly, very dark, but expressing an honest feeling of being "trapped" in my circumstances that I had at the time.

But, I posted the image on a 3D forum where I often post my works-in-progress, and someone sent me an email which said something to the effect of: "Interesting image...but why did they put the exit sign on the floor?" If you looked at the image again, and said you were looking down at the floor instead across at the wall, then obviously you could simply walk out of the "prison." So the thought came that any "prison of the mind" is really just a prison of perception. So, the image became almost an Easter image for me, resurrection from impossible circumstance by [God-given] change in persective. This is the message that I hope people will consider when they see this picture. (Consider the story of Paul and Silas in prison; though they sat in a dungeon, they chose to perceive their circumstances through God's eyes and sang praises instead. The God-given perspective became their freedom. Acts 16:16-34)

Therefore, the perspective is intentially confused, and the question is, "which way is down?" The answer is, "which way will you choose?" I added the two chairs in an attempt to show two conflicting but possible interpretations of reality. Your feedback has shown that I have only partially succeeded.

Wow. Amazing. I didn't think of it at all that way. I can see that by our response to your image you can tell that we either think of God's way or Our way. Cool.

I'm sorry, I left in an extra quotation mark. The first one is linked correctly now.

Okay, I looked at the new one. Maybe I'm not "deep" but I don't see the idea of choices in the two chairs. Chairs imply sitting, and being stationary, not movement. If the image is intended to suggest choices of a path to follow, two doorways might make more sense to most people.

Also now that you've explained your intent, I see that the "floor" is actually a wall, but its texture still, to me, makes it look like water. That and the fact that we only see part of it.