Rants by Sam

When I attended Maeve’s gallery, I at first found myself staring at the portraits of the people she had photographed, a little bewildered and confused at how they all related to each other. I also found myself confused as to how they tied into the filmed pieces shown on old TVs in wheelbarrows, as well as the deformed metal and two screens with filmed scenes showing on there as well. I found myself trying to connect dots between mediums and subjects that seemed completely unrelated, and grew increasingly frustrated at the message she tried to deliver that I just could not seem to parse. Clarity, I came to realize, in the eye and mind of an observer looking at another’s work, is often muddled and hard to perceive. We all make ties between the subject of ones work to experiences in our own lives, and assign a theme to that work based on our own preconceived notions of what we believe it to be. What I may perceive, and the meaning to which I assign a piece, is drastically different than...

The interpretation of what is meant when speaking of the concepts of space and time is very subjective depending on who you are asking. Some could say it in a very literal sense; space as the stars, the space between celestial bodies, the distance on a plain; time is the duration between two events, the unending forward motion of all things in existence, seconds ticking by on an omnipresent clock. Some say it in a more conceptual way; space as the distance between two hearts at war, the distance to which a soul holds itself apart from others; time as the numbing of pain the longer the heart has to heal, the inescapable fate of all living things as their primordial timer comes to an end. McLuhan takes a rather interesting approach to his interpretation of space and time, saying, “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” (73). His ideology behind space and time follows that of how we continue to focus on the past and the things that we cou...

Ever evolving, ever growing, art has come from its mud splattered origins on cave walls to virtual reality, where you paint in a landscape not seen without spending thousands of dollars (that quite frankly, you probably couldn't afford to spend) on the right headset and computer system. Art has offered an escape from the trials and tribulations of life to billions of people worldwide since the dawn of civilization. Cave painting done by spitting mud / paste over one's hand to leave an imprint behind. often done by members of a family or tribe source VS. VR painting of a mythical beast source Marshall McLuhan said, "Societies have often been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication." (McLuhan 9). This can be evident by the diversity in which art and artistic ideas are delivered throughout the history of humans, whether it be the aforementioned cave paintings depicting successful h...