In Cederteg No 2, Nicholas Haggard,..., the artist creates mood by color. For his cover, all is blue, and Haggard in his self-portrait looks down in somber contemplation while the letters and multiple numbers that form part of the title of his work seem to spring from his head. In another image, Haggard uses pops of color within more muted surrounding colors to enrich and punctuate the stories he wishes to tell as in his image Swimming. The artist breaks the mostly darker visual planes with the colors of the figure’s bright red swim shorts, his peach flesh color, and the green and yellow of plant foliage to create stand-outs of color against the dark, moving water.

In Brief Works John Forse creates a monochromatic zine of black images printed onto a slightly lighter black paper. From a distance the zine pages look as if they contain no content. However, up close, barely visible images reveal themselves. With close viewing one can see that the cover consists of wavy lines and circles with patterns of dots. These emerging shapes seem to wave and float upward in graceful motion, as if in water. In another illustrated example, a winter landscape emerges in shades of grays and blacks from the less dark paper. Because of the blackness of the images and the lack of explanatory text in this zine, the depicted images feel spare and silent, unoccupied as they are by people or animals. Forse strengthens this elegiac feeling through his monochromatic palette, creating a quiet and intimate experience for his viewers.