While in the MET, I was partnered up with Kayla and Nick. After a brief span of looking for a photograph to analyze, Jan Groover’s Untitled, 1980 grabbed our attention. It wasn’t long before our group began animated discussion over the focal point of the photo, the woman’s hand. This hand is what we determined to be the punctum of the artwork; with no faces being shown by the photographer, the emotion of this piece was displayed through body language. The way the hand is partially closed, our group decided after long discussion, indicates a “waving away” effect. We actually determined this by making the hand motion ourselves, and listing all the possibilities that this particular hand motion could suggest before arriving at our answer. The punctum was quite easy to find in this piece, and it really helped us to discover the studium when matched with other aspects of the photograph. Grief and tragedy are the overall themes of this photo, with the woman in the background bent over in sadness and the man on the right attempting to extend a comforting arm to the woman on the left. The woman’s hand (the punctum) shows that this particular tragedy, however, is quite severe and that the subjects are inconsolable. We believe that Jan Groover also intentionally avoided capturing the subjects’ faces in order to demonstrate grief as a shared and ubiquitous emotion, rather than one pertaining strictly to these subjects.