visual elements

What are the ingredients/elements?
tomatoes
meat
herbs
oil
onions
flour
salt
pepper

What can they make?
Combined differently, they can make

lasagna
burritos
pizza
hamburgers
bourrekas
curry
lo mein

[etc.]
[and I could go on]

What are the ingredients/the VISUAL elements?
line
shape/mass
light/value/tone
color
pattern/texture
space
movement

What can they make?
Combined differently, they can make

EVERYTHING we see

everything
we
SEE



chair
sky
landscape
tv
friends
Romans
countrymen
art
advertising
design
dashboards
deer
detritus
doorways
density
doctors
hospital rooms
health clubs
happy children
hysteria
wisteria
maps

[etc.]
[and I could go on]


Only in the presence of light, of course, but that's another post.