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midterm
Yunhee Choi GE100 Olympic Sculpture Park 2-9-09

When I first moved to Seattle in 2004, the current location of the Olympic Sculpture Park was in a developing phase. Although the construction just started and it was only big piles of dirt that I could see at the time, I was thrilled to have more than 20 of innovative sculptures in as a completed piece. After the construction was completed in the summer of 2005, I have visited the park few times whenever I needed some refreshing ideas and to get some fresh airs. Most of the talented pieces of art are creative and inspiring; I had my favorite and the least favorite ones among them. My favorite piece in the Olympic Sculpture Park is “Split,” by Roxy Paine (2003). Basically, it is stainless steel sculpture. According to the brochure, on the sculpture, the cantilevered branches are comprised of more than twenty different diameters of steel pipes, weighing a surprising 5,000 pounds. At the first time I saw the tree’s structure, I could not realize it was the sculpture, men made. It was on the shade of the roof while I was walking into the entrance. When I walked up to the second level of the building, however, I saw the tree. And then, I noticed that it was the sculpture from the window. It was sunny day, so the tree was sparking. The deep blue sea background made it perfect. I am still remembering is as the beautiful picture of my head. I could not be able to walk away from the window, so I decided to sit and just watch it until I finished a cup of coffee. How can it possible that stainless steel sculpture has such an emotional expression like nature. “What is nature; what is art?” based on the brochure. My least favorite piece is “Typewriter Eraser, Scale X,” by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (1998-1999). While I drove by nearby the sculpture park, I ignored the piece all the time. Even I was in the park, I turned my face to other side to avoid it. The reason why I did is that I did not know what it is, and I did not want to know. However, I saw the title of the sculpture, I changed my mind. According to the brochure, it is recognized by many but is ambiguous as civic messages. Moreover, since the computer had made them obsolete. I think because I did not know what it is representing, that is why I did not like it. But, after I do know what it is, I started to like it. Especially, when I looked at it under the hill, it represents more than only an eraser I think.

reflective assessment
Yunhee Choi GE100 Reflective assignment 3-27-09

What I have learned

Thanks to my sister Yunseo Choi who had taken this class a quarter ago, and she recommended to me to take this class with the professor, Steven Arntson. I would not believe her if she did not work hard which was very unusual behavior. But, she had made her work perfectly at least to me. That is the main reason why I took this class for the first time. For the first three weeks, I had hard but interesting time to figure it out what I was going to do for final project. As I did, I made a humongous plan for New York travel with my sister and friends. After I decided to do this project, I bought a book which is travel guide with very detail information in it. While I read through the book, I was already in New York far from Seattle. I was so excited; I gathered all the movies that I knew those were based on city of New York. It was not a project to me actually. It was more like an exhilarating experience. Before this project, I have never made a plan for trip since I always traveled with my parents. I just followed their decision. After 11 weeks later, I am the master of the planning New York trip. Except one tiny thing, as I was researching the city of New York, I had too much place where I want to go. And it still came out until yesterday. Now, I realized that I should make the list of priority places I really want to go to see and feel. Not only the excitement, I have a skill to research it with critical thinking. And I can plan the time line well to finish the project. I enjoyed this class a lot. If I have a chance to take this class again, I will definitely take it again.