2/18/08

Today in class we had a guest speaker, Elizabeth Alexander, who reminded me so much of my friend kelly with her curly brown hair and the way she described thing- its like they could have been twins- shes an art major as well. But really enjoyed her presentation- I love how she let her Grandmothers house influence her work so much. I like the piece that she worked on in New Zealand the most it was very aesthetically appealing and your like "what is that?" I think she said there was like a piano or something in there- crazy! I dont know if the drawers in her pieces were necessary because you really cant even tell they are there unless she tells you. I took a quote from her that I completely agreed with,"I don't wanna pay 30,000 a year to learn how to paint- I wanna do something I never thought I could do." Thats eactly how I felt at Virginia Tech- that they weren't letting people open their reative minds and do things out of the ordinary.