KRISTA
I've been to the Chicago Institute of Arts many times before this. It's always been a favorite place of mine. This was the first time i went to the MCA. I thought it was alot more vistor friendly then the institute of arts. The institute of arts is great but for the average person who doesnt know much about many famous artists the MCA displayed many artworks that invlve todays news. It also had such a welcoming enviroment with the jazz music, it wasnt all stuffy and watch where you step cause you might ruin a thousand year old painting kind of place. I remember best one of them wrote about man kinds biggest challenge will be to have enough fresh water for the population. Next to this was a water purifier, with out those I'm sure we would not be living as long as we are. All over were questions of today's world issues and underneath them they had hopes and fears. On another wall there was a row of objects. Objects that were made to make things more enviromentally safe. For example there were plates made out of some time of bark or bambo I dont quite remember the name but they were to help reduve the use of styro foam plates. I also thought the Fushabe diapers were interesting, but I wondered how good those would be. All these things the everyday person could enjoy with out haveing to brush up on their art history. That i believe is something great. Something that caught my eye as a person and as a artist was the massive change exhibition by Bruce Mau. I know for a fact that my eye was not the only drawn to this image gallery. Many people were just sitting there in awe gazing up across down all around. The images were just so easily related to people. I think if someone was honestly looking at the images they would of found atleat one image that struck something in their mind. One image that stuck in mine was a woman's face being photograph twice. Side by side, one was just her and the other had her with hundreds of tiny dots all over her face. This one stuck in my mind cause this image was a hospital U.V ray damage test. It showed how much damage this young girl had on her face from either tanning and or being in the sun. How i know this, well I had a family memeber die of skin cancer and I remember his picture just like the girls.
Thats what i mean by everyone relates to an image from their own expierences. That our mind will automatically make these connections, from a photo that was not specifically meant for that connection but our mind made it anyway. Things like that I find very intrigueing and wonderful. Even though each of those photos were seperate and individual I didnt seem them that way. Each one seem to relate to the other in some big plan or design. That no phot was just randomly stuck somewhere and that they were all connected to each other some how. It gave me a feeling of mess and memory. Thats what I think memory is, a messy collection of images and thoughts not always remembered neatly in order. That is what I thought and felt when I saw the massive change image gallery.
Krista Awad
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