Pincushion

Juice

I believe that most of the time, people are asked to do things and produce when they don’t have any means to do so.

Great Works

Reading Faulkner’s speech accepting a Nobel Peace prize, I was captivated by the ideas he presented and how relevant they were to the world I was living in, one that came long after he gave the speech.  So I picked up his book The Sound and the Fury, expecting more of the same wisdom, but was given a completely different idea of what makes a great work of literature.  Rather than focusing on the plot line or even giving readers a clear sense of what was going on, Faulker gives you a stream of conscious coming from a mentally retarded man.  You get the same sense of confusion from reading that he has in his daily life.

This idea opened up completely new avenues of what literature or a work of art could do for someone.  Not to tell a great story or put characters in situations that merit empathy, but just to let the reader get into the mind of another human being.

Along a different note, when it comes to visual art works created by Robin Rhode I consider to be great works of art.  I consider them this because they are transcendent, I can look at them and feel that they are profound as well as my father, who knows very little about art, can look at them and get something out of them as well.  There is one series in particular where you see a man up against a concrete wall and paint blobs that move in each frame to make it look as if he is juggling balls.  My dad looks at it and sees someone with a sense of humor, who can sit back in the ordinary qualities of everyday and have a good laugh.  I look at it and see a creative use of new materials as well as a statement that says even if I have nothing, I have something.  That there really isn’t a difference between having certain materials since it all fleshes out to be the same.

Faculty Show

 

Nathaniel Rogers

Sin

Oil on Panel

2008

Drawing

I was first attracted to this image to the mixture of images chosen to be interacting together.  Some are biblical, such as the winding snake and the apple.  Others are historical, such as the knight outfit reminiscent of the crusades.  What really makes the piece, for me at least, is the emotion (or lack of it) the figure portrays.

Pranky McPranksters

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Apple makes me look forward to death

Steve Jobs proved this point today.  Suddenly all the computers froze, with their rainbow wheels spinning mindlessly, and an image of the world started flashing.  Real helpful Steve Jobs, real helpful.  That world made me feel much better.

On another note, this cross stitch pattern is the best thing I’ve seen.  Not ever, I was about to say ever, but in a long time.