DenverArtMuseum Culture Paper..

So the journey to the Denver Art Museum during the first week in Colorado was amazing. 

Not only because of the incredible art I was experiencing, but the incredible people I was getting to know. We walked up and down the floors, studying the photos, the sculptures, the oriental art, the costumes, furnishings and the views out the windows.

It was a beautiful day full of wonders - everywhere I looked was something new, a new piece of eye-candy to just devour. But the new sights didn't end with what was on the walls. Looking around into the faces of girls (plus Roddy) that would soon become my best friends at college. There were bonding moments over the photography. Bonding moments over the old chinese scripts on the wall. 

There was Taiwanese culture, old english culture, culture from Sweden, Kentucky, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Missouri, Scotland and more.

I learned so much about Denver, about the beautiful faces around me, about life on the Discoveries Trip :) 

SaLLY maNN.

This haunting image of the amazing photographer is so powerful, just like her work.

She somehow, magically and mystically, transforms what is a simply beautiful view into a complete vision - a piece that the onlooker is sure to never forget. Her photography really inspires the romantic and peaceful feeling one would get from enjoying a day out in the nature with those you love. Okay, maybe not this self portrait. But her other landscape photographs are truly mesmerizing. 

There is something about the way she prints them and the techniques she uses that transforms the imperfections throughout the process. The "mistakes" or imperfections that develop only add to the mystery and mystique of the art.

Her work and the passion she has for the things she photographs really instills within me a desire to make art that will last. Art that I will want to look back on years from now and smile, remember, or experience it all over again.

It's magic.

There's a first for everything...

Obviously I've been taking pictures for a very long time... but mostly digitally. And even back when I used film when I was younger, I didn't ever develop or print myself. Well! That officially changed today - This is a photo of my very first black and white print. I am actually really excited about how it turned out. Hopefully there are more to come - yes, it takes tons more time, but I think they are absolutely beautiful and the process is somewhat therapeutic, I would say :)

Halloween POWer!!

EMotionaL. power, 

potential, FEELinG.

This girl.

a little bit crazyy.

Like this picture, my roommate is a little bit crazy.

She loves chocolate covered coffee beans.

She can't get outdoors enough.

She either talks REALLY loud or ... laughs REALLy loud.

She gives the strongest hugs.

She's pretty much... amazing.

I love this shot - taken during her self portraits the other day in class - of her just goin crazy like she does. She makes me smile and I am so glad I have her here in my life!!

<3

Hylaea.Culture.Paper.

A multi-media installation at Penrose, what an awesome and new experience for me. Going with our fsem, tasting the yummy hor'dourves (which really made a great impression on all of us before looking at the pieces...), and hearing Timothy Weaver himself talk about this project that has been in the works for over a year was really interesting. 

Yet, what struck me the most was his use of extensive media. His interest for biology and how it collides with art was apparent and striking. Weaver talked of his passion for these birds that have gone extinct or are close to it, how we've driven them to be that way, how unnatural it all is. He used projection onto a screen at the bottom of the staircase (not only a different media, but a totally new way of viewing art while looking down the stairs), compiled printed squares of birds' beaks, feathers, necks... He had a video with the sounds of the birds in it as well.

His work was beautiful and striking. I quickly took this photo with my camera while observing his art upstairs. Near the pieces on the wall was also a smaller sculpture of a bird - I believe it is a permanent piece in the library, but it complimented his installation wonderfully. Just the thought and mastermind that went behind the project was apparent and really managed to affect me. The stillness of the library contrasted the birds' calls and the fact that many of them are gone for good from existence, alive only within the pages we read. Art... yet on a completely different plane... 

Art alive and flying!

Through the Trees...

This picture is cool, but it is more about the limitations of photography. This moment was beautiful - on our PLP retreat, the full moon shining through the trees, the fire crackling behind us, a feeling of togetherness. But a photo can't capture those feelings. A photo can't capture the brightness of the moon, the brisk cold hugging our shoulders, the happiness in my heart :) 

I still like the image, the looming, comforting moon...