User:AnnaGuth

bio
My name is Anna Guth. I was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. I moved here half way through my life and miss the south terribly. I am enrolled in my first quarter here at the Art Institute studying fashion marketing. After school I would like to relocate and be a buyer for a huge company.

midterm
Artist: Roy McMakin Title: Love & Loss

When I first came across this sculpture I thought it looked more like a sign for a store. The "&" sign is bright red, lit up and spinning 15 ft in the air. I thought it looked ridiculous, almost trashy in a sculpture park. Then I looked down and I saw random letters made of cement and something that looked like a wishing well with water and pennies in the bottom. I didn't understand the lower case "e" the random cement stairs and the tree in between it all. I thought this would be a good one to choose, I didn't necessarily hate it, I just didn't know what it was. I came home and Googled his name and images and a bunch of furniture came up. I thought I had the wrong guy but then I realized he designs furniture, too. All of his furniture is strange and seems like it should fit together like a puzzle. It's painted strange colors but I kind of like it. Then I realized the sculpture fits together like a puzzle, too. I ran across a description that stated "In this piece McMakin is pointing out the place where love and loss intersect - literally. McMakin often starts his work with some everyday image and then alters it in a surprising way. The result: making the familiar seem strange." It all came together, he put two different things together, fit them like a puzzle and it all makes sense. Now that I know what it is, I like it. I have a tendency to dislike people or things off a first impression. But once I researched the meaning, I really do like it.

final
Coming into gen ed I wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought it was going to be some stupid class about the actually school but I learned a lot. I learned different ways of referencing and research. I also haven’t exactly ventured out onto the internet except for MySpace, Facebook and Google. I didn’t know anything about Wikipedia or Wikiversity. I think the internet is a great place for research and sometimes it’s cool to hear other people’s opinions about other things in their own journals or blogs. The experience in this class will take me far in all of my other classes. Since I am in the Fashion Marketing program it is an extensive amount of writing, referencing and research. I can use the methods I learned in this class to write a great paper. I liked that the whole class wasn’t just about Plato and other philosophers because of that I feel like I got more involved. I enjoyed every assignment but I think I could have done better on the final “I’ve Always Wanted to Assignment”. Because I didn’t feel like it was part of my everyday routine I pushed it off until the end. But by doing it I learned that knitting isn’t really my cup of tea. I’m glad this class is offered at the beginning of my time here at AI, I feel like it will really help my college experience.