Reading Log & Art 21 Log

Textbook Reading:
Goldin's photographs of the 1970s are all they are to be in that time. Back several decades ago, it was a very tough decade for people and in the civilization thanks to turmoil, hardships of economy, survival struggle, and an uprising of further modernization and technological rise in the confines of the Vietnam War's last years. It was extremely difficult to get good photographs of its best calibers as no one really did, particularly about what everyone was going through until Goldin managed.

Her images introduced a new area of the project as I had just realized that people are organisms in an environment, even upon the concept of habitats within habitats. We are technically animals after all. There are many different views I can keep an open-mind with and take a look at including beliefs and living styles both in and out of the norm. Oddly (and perhaps problematically), the U.S tries to be the same with each other, which is contradictory since we are still all very diverse yet unaccepting.

Goldin's imagery plays off with that via her photographs taken by Neshat, and her differences is the fact that she utilizes an immersion to her surroundings as her preliminary step prior to taking pictures. She is also driven to extend herself out of her usual comfort zone despite being her actual religion and history.

Art 21: Mark Dion

Mark Dion's works and pieces are respectful & inspirational. He takes a lot upon the inspiration from others' works and its natural forms within the ecologically considerate theme. The tree, old museum findings, and its times intrigue me at its most radiant highlights from the video. I pondered just how the cycle of life and death, good and bad, happy and sad, etc. flow through. I even thought of a recent movie I watched that a character made of natural solidify self-sacrificed but is suddenly reborn as a way of both saving others' lives and rising its own new life after much age, deterioration, & noble death.

Speaking back to the video within consideration to naturality, his mentions of pirates, middle ages, execution, death etc. was a way of reflecting the realization of intolerance, history, the morales of life and death, and moreover the grand scope of instinctive human nature and reasoned anthropomorphism. He doesn't spend a lot of time thinking of an ecological feature, but rather, holds an ecological mirror from the past to the present as a truthful way of providing reference and indirect help to those who want to build a better future and reality of the present.

The historical groundwork he takes upon is an understandable theology and it's something that I personally find that his works cannot work sustainably without the other idea of building a better natural ecology and vice versa. His paintings with the script project the bigger picture of this entire message; it's involving & "hauntingly hopeful." Even with the positive matters, being stuck in a body with the possibility of an irreversible cancer is a clear sign that we are in reality, not ideality, and natural life has yin-and-yang.

Improvised Quotes said from Mark Dion:

~"When a tree falls, only half its life is truly over, & it regrows, supporting hundreds of organisms."

~"I want to help realize the important element of how natural life really works."