I would also like to give an honorable mention to a beautiful picture of a fern I found. It was the first ever printed picture of a plant in a book.
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Me visiting the BioMedical Library
The picture of the book
The picture of the ferns
Friday, December 13, 2013
Event #3
For my third event, I visited the UCLA biomedical library. I was very confused on why I would want to go here, but figured that Professor Vesna had something good planned for me. I actually got out of this something more than I believe most students would. When I arrived at the library, I noticed a picture on the wall. It was a picture of the first printed book on medicine ever. It struck me what this whole class was about, combining art and different studies on our life to really grasp what the world is all about. This picture really summed the class up. It is a piece of art, that captures history through art, as well as displaying the first written signs of medicine we have known. Not only that, but it is located in one of the top BioMedical libraries in the world. It really does encase everything this class is about.
I would also like to give an honorable mention to a beautiful picture of a fern I found. It was the first ever printed picture of a plant in a book.
I would also like to give an honorable mention to a beautiful picture of a fern I found. It was the first ever printed picture of a plant in a book.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Event Blog #2
For my second event, I attended Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) presentations. We opened up with a presentation from Ping Ho, the founding executive director of the Arts and Healing Initiative. She started by handing out pieces of blank paper and asking us to show stress through them, like many others, I crumpled mine up. However I was very interested in the way a select few viewed stress in their life. Professor Vesna for instance only crumpled a corner of her paper, one woman in the audience simply drew on her paper, and another man punched a small hole in his paper.
However, the main thing I wanted to talk about in this blog, was the presentation by Hanna Chusid, a Psychologist and Art Therapist. One of my best friends in high schools mother was an art therapist, and the line of work has always intrigued me. In fact, it even gave me a bit of an idea for my final project! Personally, I have always been more of what society considers a "math person". Seeing things more in black and white rather than a spectrum of colors like some. So when I first heard about art therapy, it kind of seemed like a joke to me. I never learned much about it in high school, but Hanna's ideas intrigued me. How integrating work with meditation can increase productivity, and how she actually works with different states of consciousness is insane. She works with her clients in the forms of dreaming, active imagination, and visualization. She works with people until the day they die as well. For instance, she worked with a 106 year old women until she tied, who said through art and this sort of thinking, she developed a new sense of empathy at the age of 100.
What she ended with was one of the most powerful things I have heard in a while. That every human being should have two pieces of paper in their pocket, one that says "The universe exists for me" and one that says "I am but a speck of dust in the universe". Because in many situations we feel more partially to one of these, and we need to remember that both can and will be true.
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However, the main thing I wanted to talk about in this blog, was the presentation by Hanna Chusid, a Psychologist and Art Therapist. One of my best friends in high schools mother was an art therapist, and the line of work has always intrigued me. In fact, it even gave me a bit of an idea for my final project! Personally, I have always been more of what society considers a "math person". Seeing things more in black and white rather than a spectrum of colors like some. So when I first heard about art therapy, it kind of seemed like a joke to me. I never learned much about it in high school, but Hanna's ideas intrigued me. How integrating work with meditation can increase productivity, and how she actually works with different states of consciousness is insane. She works with her clients in the forms of dreaming, active imagination, and visualization. She works with people until the day they die as well. For instance, she worked with a 106 year old women until she tied, who said through art and this sort of thinking, she developed a new sense of empathy at the age of 100.
What she ended with was one of the most powerful things I have heard in a while. That every human being should have two pieces of paper in their pocket, one that says "The universe exists for me" and one that says "I am but a speck of dust in the universe". Because in many situations we feel more partially to one of these, and we need to remember that both can and will be true.
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Me attending the LASER presentations
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Event Post #1
Joyce Cutler-Shaw at the CNSI Art Sci gallery
What Comes to Mind: Memory, Traces, Engrams
The first event I attended was the Joyce Cutler-Shaw exhibit at the CNSI Art Sci Gallery. The exhibition was called "What Comes to Mind: Memory, Traces, Engrams". This exhibit really spoke to me deeply, as I grew up in a similar situation as the artist. She describes living with a single mother in New York, who owned her own market within walking distance to her house. I also grew up in a city, Downtown San Diego, with a single mother who owned her own small business just across the street from our small apartment. So when I was going through this exhibit, seeing everything Joyce was reminiscing on, it really made me think hard about what I was going to rejoice about when I return back to my city after I grow old. Her use of the "carrier pigeon" really gave an extra twist to this whole exhibit. I personally thought about it as almost a sign of age, showing how long ago all of this really happened. Also, carrier pigeons have specific places they are trained to go to, so if a carrier pigeon is in the picture, it must have been an extremely important place to that person. Overall, this show really taught me a lot and made me reconsider what I value, and I would love to see more of Joyce's work.
What Comes to Mind: Memory, Traces, Engrams
The first event I attended was the Joyce Cutler-Shaw exhibit at the CNSI Art Sci Gallery. The exhibition was called "What Comes to Mind: Memory, Traces, Engrams". This exhibit really spoke to me deeply, as I grew up in a similar situation as the artist. She describes living with a single mother in New York, who owned her own market within walking distance to her house. I also grew up in a city, Downtown San Diego, with a single mother who owned her own small business just across the street from our small apartment. So when I was going through this exhibit, seeing everything Joyce was reminiscing on, it really made me think hard about what I was going to rejoice about when I return back to my city after I grow old. Her use of the "carrier pigeon" really gave an extra twist to this whole exhibit. I personally thought about it as almost a sign of age, showing how long ago all of this really happened. Also, carrier pigeons have specific places they are trained to go to, so if a carrier pigeon is in the picture, it must have been an extremely important place to that person. Overall, this show really taught me a lot and made me reconsider what I value, and I would love to see more of Joyce's work.
A picture showing Joyce's apartment she had lived in.
Another photo, this time showing Joyce's florist she went to.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Desma 9 Week 9 Space + Art
I thought that this lecture was the perfect way to touch a little bit on everything we have learned about thus far in class. Space contains a little bit of everything and there is a lot of art within it. First off, I first feel like the aesthetic value of what we send into space is very interesting. For instance, Sputnik was designed to be perfectly polished so that everybody could see it in space, art came into a huge play with the Soviets trying to get into space.
Sputnik
Another huge piece of art that we have because of space that I personally think is really cool are all of the old retro drawings of rocket ships. People had some crazy ideas of what space crafts were going to look like and we have made a lot of cool consumer items out of them since.
Retro idea of what a space craft would look like
The third, and most important artistic value we got from entering space is movies and tv shows. Just to name some, E.T., 2001: A space odyssey, Star Wars, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Multiple generations have been raised off of TV shows, movies, and books like this. It has had a colossal effect to the people of the United States and I'm glad it got brought up in this class because it has allowed to to think a lot more in depth about the Art values involved with space travel.
Star Wars - taking place in space
And to sum up the last blog of this quarter, my favorite quote of the quarter so far: "Knowledge - technology and the recording of it, art and the expression of it - is the most important gift to our future and to our heritage. We have come far and have far to go." - B.E. Johnson
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