Beauty is fleeting. According to the dictionary, it is interpreted as ‘a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses.’ Or, it can mean ‘a combination of qualities that please the intellect or moral sense.’ In reality, beauty dances around, defying definition. It is a subjective term and thus [...]
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The physical world has become pixels, widely available on the Internet but difficult to access corporally. Previously sublime natural wonders have lost their power in the face of camera lenses; now, they are recorded rather than seen, reduced to small jpegs that fly into the wilds of the Internet. The Internet links the world together [...]
Until October 9th, I had never seen Jeff Wall’s work in person; I had pored over reproductions in art books, feasted on his writings, and modeled my own work in his shadow, but never stood in front of his images. On October 9th, I did, and I didn’t feel a thing.
Mr. Wall has [...]
Graphite becomes sentient in its imperfection. A pencil traces over paper, giving way to fibers in the surface. It changes over the short time it takes to draw the line; becoming blunt, shifting tone. In these ever-evolving lines, the artist is preserved. Mood and personality are contained in the weight and the brevity of the [...]