Eating Carrots. Christopher, Carl, and Ashley (from left). It was a 9 hour drive both ways. We started out listening to an amazing playlist (made by Ashley's manfriend Andy) then we switched to NPR's Radiolab and couldn't stop listening to the different podcasts. I'm addicted to Radiolab now. Curse you, Ashley!!
...I've been dreaming of this for ages. Seeing Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate.
Photo Cred on this next one goes to Carl (Sorry for stealing this, Carl, but I love this picture):
Then there was the Chicago Museum of Art (located right across the street from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
Lee Bontecou. When I saw it, I froze and lost my breath at the same time. I don't know about you, but some art does that to me. I probably stood in front of it for about 45 minutes. Right next to it was an Eva Hesse [Hang ups] piece. I was in Heaven.
Another artwork to take my breath away - The Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy pile. I ate a piece and kept the cellophane. It was gold. Visitors are encouraged to take a piece from the candy pile; enjoying it, but making it slowly fade away. It's a metaphor on death (particularly the death of Felix's lover Ross from AIDs). Beautiful.
...I've been dreaming of this for ages. Seeing Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate.
Photo Cred on this next one goes to Carl (Sorry for stealing this, Carl, but I love this picture):
Then there was the Chicago Museum of Art (located right across the street from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
Lee Bontecou. When I saw it, I froze and lost my breath at the same time. I don't know about you, but some art does that to me. I probably stood in front of it for about 45 minutes. Right next to it was an Eva Hesse [Hang ups] piece. I was in Heaven.
Another artwork to take my breath away - The Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy pile. I ate a piece and kept the cellophane. It was gold. Visitors are encouraged to take a piece from the candy pile; enjoying it, but making it slowly fade away. It's a metaphor on death (particularly the death of Felix's lover Ross from AIDs). Beautiful.
Carl with Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of clouds.
Then a Rauschenberg (Drool. I love him.), Van Gogh Self-portrait [Those paint chunks are 4 times as old as me!], and Ashley with Seurat.
Then, to end the trip with a bang, we ate traditional Chicago Pizza Pie and talked about our journey, art, life, and general mischief. Carl at 5 pieces on his own. Haha.
Then a Rauschenberg (Drool. I love him.), Van Gogh Self-portrait [Those paint chunks are 4 times as old as me!], and Ashley with Seurat.
Then, to end the trip with a bang, we ate traditional Chicago Pizza Pie and talked about our journey, art, life, and general mischief. Carl at 5 pieces on his own. Haha.
I would have eaten more if I hadn't been so exhausted. The elevator at the art school went out and we had to scale 7 floors after, that morning, walking 6 blocks in the wrong direction. We were tired. Did I mention that the actual Portfolio review went really well? I got some semi-legit offers from a couple of really great schools. The phrases "This is beautiful feminist work", "I want to work with you" and "I could see you working with some of our sculpture staff" were used. [I totally went in the bathroom after that, jumped up and down then called my mom]. Now I just have to keep working, pass 2 more semesters, set up my senior show, and graduate. Details, Details.
XO.
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