Friday, October 19, 2012

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."-Aristotle

In the past few months, I’ve wandered around campus in my free time and while doing that, I noticed that there are a lot of sculptures and art work all around campus. I think its one of the things that makes SCSU’s campus so beautiful. The one that I like the most is the one outside of Engleman Hall. It’s called H2o: Liquid Zone by mikyoung kim. I think today I realized why it’s called that. When it rains, all the water collects in the base of the sculpture. I really like this sculpture because I’m not too sure what it is. It’s pretty much up to your imagination. You can interpret this sculpture in so many ways. It can look like so many different things. At first, I thought it looked almost like three birds. But now that I know what it’s called, to me it looks like it could be a body of water. Maybe a beach of some sort, because it’s curvy, so that could represent waves. Or maybe a river and the curviness could represent the current. I often walk by this sculpture, just to look at it. I’m not really sure why I’ve taken such a liking to it. Whenever I meet up with my cousin on campus, that’s where we meet up. We just called it “the weird sculpture thing outside of engleman”. But now that I know the name of it, we can actually refer to it by its name, or “the water sculpture thing”. But I digress, this sculpture is a very interesting piece of art work and you can never really be too sure of what it is unless you google it, maybe. But it’s more fun to interpret it in your own way anyways. Any piece of artwork can become anything you perceive it as. That’s what is so great about the arts, everything can be perceived in a different way by different people.


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