Dia:Beacon Field Trip

The trip to Dia:Beacon was very interesting, especially seeing the artists' work that I've only ever seen before in photographs. Richard Serra's pieces that were on display were breathtaking as well as Sol LeWitt's drawings and sculptures. LeWitt's attention to detail and mathematics gave me an entirely new and unique perspective on artwork itself while being able to touch and walk through Serra's enormous sculptures allowed me to experience the artwork beyond the aesthetic. Many of the pieces had an overwhelming quality to them and the amount of space not occupied by artwork leant itself to this idea. Another artist who I found extremely interesting through his artwork was Robert Smithson. Smithson's broken glass sculpture as well as the mirror in a mountain of sand were captivating and deliberate. While I wasn't impressed by each artist, overall the trip had a very positive effect on me as an artist. I found it very educational and enjoyed learning about each artist and his or her work individually.

Poetry Project Poem and Idea

"Other Fish"
Mike Doughty

A girl with a backpack on a cellular phone sighs;
between the exhale and the first consonant
a van barrels through her. And who knows
what the boy thinks, his line slipping from her voice,
her words sucked backwards through the wire?
Two hours from now he’ll be drunk,
his slurred thoughts slobbering over motives,
why she decided suddenly to leave him
and hung up mid-word.

The phone yelps angrily from under a bus,
and she lays splayed like an asterisk
in the dreary sentence of Fourteenth Street

My idea for this project entails making every line of the poem a page in the book and every piece of text a piece of art. For instance, for the last part of the poem about the asterisk in the dreary sentence of Fourteenth Street, I may use type to make the asterisk look more violent and make the last line like a street. This idea is currently a work-in-progress and I am still working on fresh ideas to spice it up.