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For my third event I visited the Hammer Museum. I have wanted to visit for a while and I appreciated that this assignment gave me an excuse to go. They are currently hosting an exhibit called "Made in LA" featuring only LA based artists. One piece that I felt connected with what we have been learning in class was Candice Lin's La Charada China.  Because of her work with flowers in her art, it reminded me of  Edward Steichen and George Gessert. I would have loved to see Steichens Delphinium visit in person, so this particular exhibit really caught my attention. La Charada China  was a room containing a raised earthen platform with a hole in the center in the shape of a man. Inside the hole, seeds of opium poppy, sugarcane, and a few poisonous plants were spread. This exhibit was fairly new to the museum, but overtime, using grow lights and an irrigation system, the hollow should fill with plant life. Lin was hoping to portray the history of oppression of Chinese people t...

We as a people have had a fascination with space for a long time. I have always appreciated artistic representations of our solar system and other systems at work out of the earth's atmosphere. It takes a specific eye to present that kind of  data in a way that is beautiful to all. Because of the magnanimity and otherworldliness of space, people want to see interpretations of it that they can understand. With modern technology, we can now take beautiful pictures of galaxies and stars farther away than is fathomable to us. There is less of a mystery surrounding what is out there, but people are still infatuated with the difference between earth and everywhere else. A particularly interesting force people have been experimenting with is gravity. It is becoming more and more accessible for people to experience zero or altered gravity, and for those that cannot experience it, they can still watch videos of what happens when the the pull of the earth disappears. My favorite example ...