Event 2

For the second event I found myself at the Fine Arts Senior Exhibit at UCLA.  This show was very eclectic from a watermelon in pantyhose with a keyhole in the center, to a video of people drowning in water.

The first piece by Andrew Cohen titled "Please Take One."  I liked the interactive aspect of this piece.  At the beginning of the show it was a very interesting flower looking design at a very zoomed in viewpoint.  As people participated in the piece it became to slowly fall apart.  I think within the relation of science and art, many understandings of what people held until now are falling apart.  And becoming a new creation, like this piece, which I am not sure if all the parts were taken by participators, or some were left.

 This piece by Sally Ching was a short film titled A Granted Paradise.  It was a silent film going through different points of holding this bird like creation.  It eventually was ripped apart, and there were quick edits of blood, as well as someone coming out of water.  This piece reminded me of the LSD study we did on class.  Some pieces of art are just inspired by weird uncomfortable things that don't make too much sense, but still draw the person into the moment.

The overall exhibit was very strange to me, and I didn't have a great lens to view it from.  But many of the topics we studied in class I felt the same way.  Some art may be weird just to be weird, or be saying something very deep that goes over my head.