Blog Entry #3

1. Do we define a place or does a place define us?
A place is defined by the way an individual artist renders it to be. An artist can make a happy place like cedar point with lots of little children riding rides and smiling. Or the artist can take Cedar Point and make it a horrific image by creating a image of a rollercoaster derailing and depict the deathly scared faces of the people riding the ride. The artist defines how we view the place.

2. How is each of the featured artists influenced by particular places? How is this influence reflected in the artist’s work?
Each artist is influenced by in which manor they were raised in. for example artist Do-Ho Shu’s art is very reflective of his Chinese background.

3. Which artist do you feel most connected to and why?
Richard Serra, because he has found a way to make a living out art, and that inspires me to try and do what he has done. Being an artist is no easy task for one person to handle, and having to make a career out of it is even harder.

4. When you were young, was there a place that interested you? A place that scared you? List five places from your childhood. Use one word to describe each of them.
1. Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame
2. Space
3. Attic
4. Cellar
5. Closet

5. Pick one of those places. Try and remember it as well as you can. Answer these questions about it… What objects occupy that place? What are the textures and sizes of those objects? What was the lighting like? Was it a dark dreary place? Or a bright happy one?
Cellar
House decorations, suit cases, fans, screens, candles, boxes, dusty, moist, dark, creepy, shadows, monsters, Halloween costumes, files, water heater, sub pump, bricks, paint, stain, Christmas tree.