San Francisco: artwork in environment III

San Francisco: artwork in environment II

San Francisco: artwork in environment

San Francisco: double urinal

a combination of two urinal,
so men can share it,
and get closer in restroom.

San Francisco: melted plastic pipe

That was a mess of plastic pipe.
However, when the middle part was melted.
The darken space became a seat.
A mess became no more a mess,
but something useful.
it's interesting that thing could always transform into another thing.

San Francisco: wood junction

The trunk was cut off into the shape of junction between two bones.
it was interesting to turn a subject into another material.
This trunk contained a characteristic of human's body,
so should it still be a wood or human's part?
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San Francisco: Arneson, California Artist

This sculpture is named " California Artist, made by Arneson.
This artwork is a great representative of California statue.
After i took picture with this status,
i have a prove of visiting California.
An artwork can really represent a place,
just like the statue of liberty,
which is presenting New York City.

San Francisco: Haring's scuplture

i finally visited Haring's sculpture,
and i found he had a edition limit of his artwork.
it brings happy feeling to the people who just cross by.
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San Francisco: Lombard Street, Russian Hill

San Francisco: surrounding

here was the road connecting to the architecture,
and it surrounded by many trees with mold on.
the mold trees created a sense of mystery garden,
as surrounding environment actually can affect how's an object looks.
therefore, it's important to take care surrounding,
when we display our artworks.
cos an artwork can never be separated from the environment.

San Francisco: disappearing dinosaur skeleton

the dinosaur skeleton was inside the museum.
i looked through the gap between the glass doors,
part of the skeleton disappeared.
probably, this happening related to physical field,
something about reflection and refraction.
thus, the way we see can affect what we r seeing.

San Francisco: natural sculptor

i found this piece in Golden Gate Park.
a mail box was placed on a cut wood,
and the tiny branches were growing out from the big wood.
it seems someone randomly placing a mail box on a wood,
but it looks as an artwork to me.
and it is just placed in a natural environment instead of museum.

San Francisco: rtraffic sign

the first day i visited San Francisco,
i saw a interesting traffic sign,
which showed the complicated directions of roads.
will people able to have enough time before they passing the road?
i was thinking about to learn driving before,
but i seemed to give up this idea after i saw this road sign.
it's just too complicated.

chesscake in cougar

i had a strawberry cheesecake in school's restaurant.
it's really delicious with the fresh-made strawberry jam.
the cheesecake seemed bleeding on its white-snow skin.

sculpture: pre-casting

i designed to make a little tree in aluminum.
i used the plastic spoons to form the leaves,
instead of using clay.
the ready-made materials already have great shape to become shapes of other subjects.
i am excited to see how this little tree grows after spring break,

2-D color study transform into 3D

one of my classmates made this.
he/she transformed a previous homework of color study into 3 dimensions.
he/she empty some squares of colors on the paper,
and painted the shadows of the remain squares on the behind paper.
these two layers formed a 3 dimensional view.
it's such a creative work!

painting: self portrait 0.5/1

the next project for my painting class is self portrait.
besides painting the front side,
i also drew on the backside,
in case someone may steal my painting board again.
when i finished the mark,
the back side became another artwork to me.
so one piece of artwork actually can be double artworks,
present more then one view.

Sponkane conference

i attended a conference in Sponkane on 3/4.
one section talked about the media.
it said the media designed what should tell audience, and what should not.
sometimes media control and hide some facts.
once we feel know well about the world, actually we don't.
i heard something like the popular color in the year actually has been designed by a group of people.
if pink and grey are popular in that year, it's not randomly happen.
many things are actually under control.

one other sections discussed what civility is.
i think that civility was actually come up with a same degree of a majority group of people.
the civility we know may actually not right,
just like the cannibals feel civil when they are eating people, but we don't.

Also, if our behaves are following under the same degree of a majority group of people.
is our culture also come up with that degree from generals?
Or our culture is designed by a special group of people.
if yes so, the special people designed society, and then the society shape individuals?
how we act is actually shaped by some special people?