flood walls and eggs
ah finally. school is over. until august anyway. Thursday my art class went to Portsmouth, Ohio to this art gallery, and then to Shawnee state to see their art exhibit. After that, we went to the flood walls, which are really neat because each one has a mural that represents a little of the town's history. All in all, a fun time was had by all.
There was this girl in my class that has Down's Syndrome, and she is so funny. During the trip to Portsmouth, this guy Michael was sitting beside her in the car and she was talking to him a little, and then out of nowhere she announces to everyone that whenever she looks at Michael she sees fireworks coming between them, and that he was a genius because he has big 'guns'. maybe you had to be there, but i was literally crying, i was laughing so hard.
At the art exhibit, there was a display of Clarence Carter's work, who was a local artist. His work was so beautiful, in a style like Norman Rockwell. But at the end of the gallery were the paintings done near the end of his life, and they were so drastically different. They all had an upside down egg in them, which according to the caption on the wall, was supposed to represent the chasm between life and death, I guess the point where something is dead, but still alive. Those paintings still haunt me. One looked like a man in his thirties, bent oven underneath a blanket with only the top of his bald head showing, and a dead sunflower was leaning in towards his body, following the shape of his back. and the back ground was a gloomy, forsaken sky. The egg in this picture was actually formed by the light that shined off of his head. Okay, so that one was not so bad. But then, around the corner i saw a picture of a stormy looking ocean, with violent wave, and a lone egg on the right hand side, just floating in the sea. i believe that the egg also became transparent as you looked up. So, when i actually stepped around the corner to see this picture closer...let me first just say, that the group I was with were the only people in the gallery which is kind of creepy to begin with because it is so quiet, and secondly, the lights were dimmed so that the spotlights would have a better effect on the paintings...so anyway as i stepped around the corner after being mildly freaked out by these intense paintings, i see this giant upside down egg, not a painting, but a 3D sculpture, as big as i am, 'floating' on top of this box that has a strange blue light shining on it from underneath. i almost screamed. it was one of the creepiest things i have ever seen, and i am not exactly sure why it is so creepy, but it scared the crap out of me.
There was this girl in my class that has Down's Syndrome, and she is so funny. During the trip to Portsmouth, this guy Michael was sitting beside her in the car and she was talking to him a little, and then out of nowhere she announces to everyone that whenever she looks at Michael she sees fireworks coming between them, and that he was a genius because he has big 'guns'. maybe you had to be there, but i was literally crying, i was laughing so hard.
At the art exhibit, there was a display of Clarence Carter's work, who was a local artist. His work was so beautiful, in a style like Norman Rockwell. But at the end of the gallery were the paintings done near the end of his life, and they were so drastically different. They all had an upside down egg in them, which according to the caption on the wall, was supposed to represent the chasm between life and death, I guess the point where something is dead, but still alive. Those paintings still haunt me. One looked like a man in his thirties, bent oven underneath a blanket with only the top of his bald head showing, and a dead sunflower was leaning in towards his body, following the shape of his back. and the back ground was a gloomy, forsaken sky. The egg in this picture was actually formed by the light that shined off of his head. Okay, so that one was not so bad. But then, around the corner i saw a picture of a stormy looking ocean, with violent wave, and a lone egg on the right hand side, just floating in the sea. i believe that the egg also became transparent as you looked up. So, when i actually stepped around the corner to see this picture closer...let me first just say, that the group I was with were the only people in the gallery which is kind of creepy to begin with because it is so quiet, and secondly, the lights were dimmed so that the spotlights would have a better effect on the paintings...so anyway as i stepped around the corner after being mildly freaked out by these intense paintings, i see this giant upside down egg, not a painting, but a 3D sculpture, as big as i am, 'floating' on top of this box that has a strange blue light shining on it from underneath. i almost screamed. it was one of the creepiest things i have ever seen, and i am not exactly sure why it is so creepy, but it scared the crap out of me.