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This is a sad metaphor for education. One I'd like to change. We see students being told to avoid the "fun zone" and stay in line. Ignore the clown.
Often times education forces students to do just this. Stay on task, don't venture off, don't be creative.
Sadly, students comply. They know the clown is there, but they do what they are told. They have been conditioned from day one to stop being creative.
At the time this picture was taken, I was very good friends with the three people pictured in this photograph. I saw them walking down the hallway and the sun shining through, and I hurried over to them to catch this image before it was too late. At first, I was a little annoyed, because it was blurry, but once I switched it to black and white and upped the contrast, I liked it a lot.
This image is very metaphorical to me, because all three of these people left my life shortly after I took this picture, in different ways. They faded away from me very quickly, just like they faded away into the sun at the end of this hallway. I've moved on, they've moved on, but this image is a reminder to me of how close we all were. I love this picture.
My project explores the idea of what metaphors and similes would look like if they were taken literally. There was no artist whose work I specifically looked at, but I looked on websites for metaphors and similes. When I was looking for metaphors and similes online, l tried to imagine what each one would look like in real life and then chose which ones I thought I would be able to bring to life. During this project I got better at using many layers. I couldn't figure out how to make the water look more blended with the subject so I used a new blending mode. My project was successful because I was able to do what I set out to do and make metaphors and similes literal. However if I were to do this project again then I wouldn't include the text and I would spend more time on the editing.
Sometimes thing we discard have such an unique appearance that it feels totally odd to put them in the waste basket.
Facing the Sublime in Water, CA offers metaphors – both explicit and implicit – for the timeless idea that constraints and desperation can provide constructive applications and outcomes – unexpected or not – in a variety of social, political, and personal contexts. Whether accidentally or on purpose, constraints can make an idea, an action, or an object fluid. That conflict is at the core of the content of this show.
The idea for Facing the Sublime in Water, CA began as a response to another's fascination with the Salton Sea – a geographic anomaly that was created by an agricultural blunder, is California's largest lake, and is so immense that it is visible from space. The Salton Sea inspired artists and Nicole Antebi and Enid Baxter Blader to explore water issues and create a project entitled Water, CA, a website that includes images and texts Antebi and Blader gathered from artists, environmentalists, and historians, that address the history and representation of water and water use through the lens of artistic production. The exhibition checklist of Facing the Sublime in Water, CA will be added as a link on www.waterca.net – likewise, the website itself is an item on the exhibition checklist, is to be included in the exhibition itself (along with drawings, photographs, texts, books, videos, and other elements represented on the web site that will be selected and organized by Antebi and Blader), and will be listed accordingly in the accompanying catalogue. The elliptical relationship between these platforms – the website, the exhibition, and the exhibition catalogue – reflects the fluid constraints at the center of the show.
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yeah, i am big on metaphors ~grin~
since we are still awaiting the arrival of the unwanted houseguest (irene) i'm going with this pic i took and posted yesterday. it's earth tones and it is easy ~grin~. alternate is down below, also. who knew the topic would be earth tones??
#ds650 Make a photograph composed of earth tones today. Use contrast and composition to provide visual excitement.
cicada completing ecdysis.
trigger/fill — on-camera (sigma dp2) flash
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Sometimes it's too easy to read a poignant summary of the Human Condition into what is a beautiful, if inefficient, mode of plant reproduction. Nature is a mirror as much as Art: we can see ourselves everywhere if we look.
The community is not entirely settled on how many species of these things there are, to put it mildly.
"Even for Einstein it remained a dream
To unify the field, which makes it seem
Likely the rest of us won't get a gleam
Of how, or if, the whole works fit a scheme.
One merely hopes that we have made a start.
Our apprehensions might not melt the heart
Or even be heartfelt for the most part,
But from that insufficiency comes art."
"Echo Echo Echo" from Clive James (2003) "The Book of My Enemy: collected verse 1958-2003"