Where else in the world can you be let out of your afternoon class to visit one of the loveliest gardens in Paris to view a photography exhibit, but instead end up lost in the garden's modern art exhibit? If you know of any where else, please contact my people.
During today's workshop afternoon class we were let out to explore a photograph exhibit at the Luxembourg gardens. For the life of me and the girl I was with we could not find it. Turns out it wasn't inside the gardens, but on the outer wall. Either way we discovered art to write about for our class. I'm not really one for modern art. I'm more of an impressionist girl myself. I've pretty much wanted to marry Claude Monet since infancy (any Tom Petty, but that's a story for another day) There were some really interesting pieces of art in the Luxembourg gardens today.
I enjoy moving art, I've decided. Video Clips in sync with music, a collection of hour glasses continuously counting time, series of photographs documenting the progression of time. The piece I fell in love with today I decided to call the "Relaxation Box."
It was a wooden crate of a room painted black with projection of waves crashing on the beach playing repeatedly to the tunes of smooth jazz. I could have lived in that room. Here is the artists website: Cynthia Phibel. This piece isn't up on the site yet. I wish I written down the rediculosly long name.
On a cultural note: The Parisians love to give everything a long name, and then come up with some sort of abbreviation for it. Par example: My school is "L'Institut Catholique du Paris" or simply "the Catho" I mean we do this in the U.S. but it's like a weird sort of hobby here to think up crazy long names that no one will ever call anything. Fun fun.
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