Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Prompt 2


What we are looking at is the passage of images through life: 
we carry images with us and sometimes we express them, for instance, in art. 
The Hopper’s painting and the picture I took in the subway could be an example of how visual information cross time and different media. 
To look at something is to acknowledge the mysterious necessity of the phenomenon’s presence; to see is a celebration of distraction. 
These women, concentrated in their reading, made me look at them. 
Strangely enough, one’s distraction allows someone else’s look.
While we look there is no hidden side of the object, its mystery is clear. 
By looking we take into consideration perceptions boundaries and possibilities.  

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