Reading Response: "Green Dreams: Garden"

  I think it's interesting how the author portrays the different gardens in this chapter. This style of writing really reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe, because of the attention to detail to create imagery. I like the atmosphere that this chapter gives off, it is almost dreamlike. Throughout the text, the author moves from place to place, explaining the individuality of the different gardens, and describes them as if they were cut away from time, like a sanctuary. At different times in reading this, I would wish that the author would be a little less descriptive, but in the end I actually enjoyed it.
  My favorite garden out of them all was definitely the garden built by Orsini. I really liked reading about the dark mood it gave off. I can really picture "Orsini's park of monsters". I think I connected with this one the most, because I could really understand Orsini wanting to put his soul into his work. One of the structures described was really fascinating, the author describing an almost beast-like structure in the park. I think it is even more fascinating to imagine the whole garden filled with sculptures like that.

Rhinoceros: In-Depth Project

Rhinoceros- Small works

Rhinoceros- Small works

Pattern and Ornament: Small Works

Small work 1:

Small work 2: (I fell on my way home from critique and my sculpture broke apart. I'm really sorry. You can kind of see it in the picture of my presentation in class at the top of this blog post.)

Small work 3:

Pattern and Ornament: In-Depth Project

Pattern and Ornament: Outside Visit- Exhibition at PAMM (Substitution for Rhinoceros Outside Visit)

  I wound first like to go off by saying that I absolutely loved the Routes of Influence exhibition, as well as the Basquiat exhibition. It sadden's me that I can only write about one of the exhibitions but, C'est la vie.

  The first thing I saw while walking into the Ornament and Empire exhibition was this huge 'Boat' looking sculpture. The sculpture was very curious because the closer you look, the more hidden easter egg's you find, and I most likely didn't find most of them myself! The most obvious thing that I saw, that related to this topic, was the patterns that trailed across both the the exterior and the interior. And then, If you look even closer you see the "cross-hatched"design that is subtly over the more obvious exterior pattern.

 


  The paintings were definitely my favorite part of the exhibition. The way pattern is portrayed I find really beautiful. The painting's stuck with me a lot more than the sculpture, probably because I am more connected to painting, but overall I just find them very compelling. For example, the painting to the right with the woman was very interesting. The fact the the woman is just a silhouette with this incredibly detailed head ornament was kind of ironic to me because usually the ornament is the thing that is blurred and pushed to the background.