I went to the UCSB honors art show last night on campus in the red barn/ old gym gallery. It is called Whenever You Are, We Are Already Then. The title of this show really struck me because I think it directly relates to Kip's lecture on Monday, as well as to the short French film we watched in section yesterday. Basically the concept is that all things that happen have already happened. They may be slightly different, but they have happened infinite times in the past and will happen infinite times in the future. Two artists, Raphael Lehrer and Michael Powell, did a piece called Palette and another piece called Thou Shalt Not Worship. Again, these two pieces reminded me of the pun project we are assigned to do for tomorrow. The former sculpture was literally a bunch of cargo-shipping palettes stacked on top of one another, some painted different colors...a palette, like a paint palette, but moving palettes...get it? The latter sculpture is a palette mounted into the corner of two walls, painted metallic gold. I liked it as it was but once I read the title Thou Shalt Not Worship i cracked up because it seems to me that people in the world will worship literally anything these days if they are told to. Funny. All of the other ones are really cool too but i dont want to write all night! so i'm just going to list all the words that came to my mind when looking at another student's (Lillian Edwards) pen & ink pieces--> insects, silhouette, lilies, combs, puzzles, mushrooms, leaves, flowers, outer space, space ships, colonizing, colonies. Her drawings came from small things she found on the beach and magnified a ton until they became abstract images. Funny huh. Anything in the world no matter how realistic or concrete will become abstract if you really look into it. Get it?
puns puns puns
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