Blog Number 7

This week's guest speaker, Terri Warpinski, was without a doubt my favorite lecturer we have had so far. I believe she was the most down to Earth, and I don't want to use the word "normal", but I think she seemed to be the most ordinary out of all the other speakers. I was (and still somewhat am), an avid photographer and I loved seeing some of the exposures that Terri captured. When I first came to the U of O I wanted to go into printmaking and was really into that kind of stuff, I think that Terri's origins as a printmaker is very apparent in her overall work. I love how she would use different mediums to put her photographs on, like the pillowcase for example. I made a shirt in high school with one of my shots on it and I was able to connect with Terri a little bit because of that. She creates a signature look in her shots by hand drawing on some of them, something I tried doing in high school which is ridiculously hard.
I drew a direct connection between Terri's work and the first reading this week with Richard Shusterman. Shusterman discusses the aesthetic attitude towards art and how it should not be separated from the world but rather more connected to the world and nature. I agree with this view that art should be more connected with nature and the world around us, not created to be displayed in museums and studios. I loved his quote, "the end of art is the external object you create," (p. 257). 

The second reading, with Carol Becker, I was also able to draw some connections with what Warpinkski was describing. Warpinksi described the relationship with art and society, and I believe Becker discussed something along the same lines. Warpinksi describes this with her travels to Berlin and parts of the Middle East, which she depicts social issues within these societies in a very real and beautiful way. Becker describes this by encouraging her students to be a part of society and not against it. To connect with the community around them and to not draw away from it. Becker discusses about how some artists tend to walk away or isolate themselves from the societies that they live in and that is not what they should be doing she says, and I believe is true as well. She says that they need to connect with society and think about where they are in relation to it. I believe that Becker can, and is, adding a lot to society and the art world. I think more artists should listen to Becker and take her initiative in being apart of society, and not simply turning there backs on it and walking away.



 Black and White photo with hand coloring -

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