The art show I decided to go to this week was “The Extraordinarily Difficult and Impossible Tasks of: Recounting Fading and Altered Memories and Stabilizing Shifting Time” created by Jane Weibel. Her entire art work took me back to my own childhood memories because of all the art inside such as swings, toddler clothes hung from a string, ladders, and many other things.Walking inside felt as if I was walking into a playground with so many colors. She was always interested in art work, but did stop around her 20’s; eventually she decided that art was for her and she just went for it. She was inspired to these types of art work because it reminded her of her childhood and the memories behind it. Also, she researched that our brains rewrite our memories every time we think about them. That is something that gave her anxiety and devastated her.
The tools she used were ceramics and she used different fiber ropes and other things to make her art work happen. Her whole are is about memories and going back to our childhood. She began doing this type of art when she found some old pictures of her childhood and realized that every time she thought of those moments they were changing as she rethought them. It also gave her anxiety because her aunt passed away from Alzheimer’s disease which was sad because she forgot all memories. To Wiebel memories are very fragile and should be remembered as they were not shifting or changing them as we remember the memories.
Weibel lives in downtown Long Beach and goes to CSULB. Before she went to CSULB she was at a community college near San Diego for two years and was going to get a major in graphic design. She then transferred to CSULB and needs one more year to graduate and is getting a major in Ceramics. She decided to pick ceramics because she can manipulate and shape the artwork the way she would want. It took her about two months to do all the art in the gallery and about 36 hours to install all her work in the gallery.
I really enjoyed walking around in her gallery and remembering my own memories. I also found it devastating that every time we remember our memories they are changing the way things actually happened. I loved the hanging swing and the toddler clothing hanging because it was like a playground or like a child’s home.
You can find her on Instagram: janemargarette
October 13, 2015 at 8:17 pm
Comment by: https://madsmariees.wordpress.com
So Marisol interviewed the artist Jane Weibel and a few good things about her blog was that she had really good information about her artist. Another is that I really loved how she put Jane’s gallery title in her blog which is “The Extraordinarily Difficult and Impossible Tasks of Recounting Fading and Altered Memories and Stabilizing Shifting Time.” I really enjoyed that she put the title because I didn’t even know the title of Jane’s gallery, so it was good information for me. The third thing that I enjoyed about Marisa’s post was that I enjoyed reading her opinion on Jane’s gallery.
However, there were a few things that Marisol could have done better on her blog post. I would have enjoyed to see more pictures of the gallery that she toured, including a picture of her artist. The second being I feel that she could have added some more information about how the artist was first inspired to create this gallery. The last conceptual critique I have is that Marisol repeated a little too many times that the memories we have are constantly changing every time we recall them, which is very interesting, however she should have only said it once. I feel that it has a much bigger impact on the reader when it is only said once instead of being repeated several times.
There were a few spelling and grammar errors throughout Marisol’s blog, but they were very minor. One being that in the first paragraph Marisol writes that Jane “just went for it” describing when she wanted to pursue art, and I feel that she could have used better wording. The second thing that I feel Marisol could of fixed is that I feel that she could have elaborated more on Jane’s interest in art and ow she got inspired to pursue art. The last critique I have is very small, which is in the second paragraph where Marisol writes “Her whole are is about memories” and I believe the word should be art.
I feel that Marisol had a really good blog post, and there were just a few minor things she could change that would potentially make he blog a lot stronger. Good job Marisol!!
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