User:Christinacross

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic Climb/Camp in Mt Rainer


 * Research Component


 * week 1 Discuss with my husband what the best time of year would be.


 * week 2 We decided in the summer time for a couple days. Find out the different camping/climbing activities available.


 * week 3 Start putting together all this info in a general outline.


 * week 4 Make outline more formal. Start to create presentation.


 * week 5 Keep adding info to presentation. And start saving money.


 * week 6 Continue saving money until we reached our desired goal for this trip.


 * week 7 Gather final information and do a mock presentaion at home to make sure it all flows together.


 * week 8 Present.

Why Do I Like What I Like?
Christina Cross Gen Ed. Sem. Monday Afternoons

Sculptor

Upon receiving the instructions for this assignment, I knew it would not be difficult for me to find a sculpture I would like. Although I do admire Greek and Roman sculptures, I’m not much of a fan of modern day sculptures. So, I decided to pick one I liked the least. That in itself was a mini challenge.

When entering the park I immediately came across this large black square structure that was just it: large and black. I walked around it trying to figure out what the heck it was and on some humorous note, waiting for little alien men to jump out from the top. I quickly found an opening and walked through it. Okay, now I was standing in the middle of this large black structure….I continued my path and came across much smaller black blocks being pulled in many different directions. “Now what’s the point?” I thought to myself. I read the excerpt from the sculptor, Tony Smith, and the philosophy behind it. Making shapes out there in the quantum world visible. That in fact, perhaps there are many different dimensions of shapes out there among us that we cannot see because we are programmed to only see up to 3 dimensions.

This thought could not leave my mind while I continued to look at other sculptors work and read their excerpts. I was distracted. I went back to the blocks and stood there. I read again Tony Smiths words and then thought “what can I take away from him and learn from it? What is this about him that makes my mind wrestle with itself?!” And then, I think the magical question came to me “how can I relate this to what I’m doing in school for Interior Design?” My little philosophy about manipulating the inside of a 3D space and being able to evoke certain vibes, feelings and emotions to and from people, to create this atmosphere unique and personal according to the person its for.

I’ve determined Tony Smith does the same but somehow opposite. He does deal with dimensions that are unseen by the eye and perhaps very much around us, however, only on the outside. He doesn’t play with the inside but only the outside as he was a former architect. And that was it. We are on different pages in the same book so to speak. There was a relation to him that I was not expecting to find at all. I tried to go to the sculpture park open minded, but thinking back on it now, I believe it was mostly a defiant attitude. I had decided in class upon receiving instruction that I don’t like modern sculpture, and therefore, already closed. Tony Smiths sculptures that deal with the outside elements of our complex world, opened up something inside me. My mind was changed and I do admire his work. I looked online at other pieces he has done, and these massive structures are just amazing. What was opened up inside me, I don’t really know yet. I can feel it. Perhaps it’s a different way of communication from one designer to the next that I had never thought about or perhaps it’s something else completely. I do know though, that I did change my mind when I never expected to.