(all i can) B: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

source

paperclips

holding
forever bound
together
beware
don’t lose
if lost
never
never found
all is free
anyway
they want to be

no rules
no context
no paperclip
nothing is safe

one day
they’ll fly away
hold on tight
don’t let go
keep the clip
fixed in place
paper clips
holding paper together
people clips
holding people together
hold on tight
don’t let go
keep the clip
forever in place

never say forever
you can’t promise more than this moment

you are in
you are out
you are wild
you are free
flying about
dying
dying to be
bound once more
safe and secure
permanent

tightly fastened
together at last
together forever
never say forever

i wont promise more
hold on tight
don’t let go
keep the clip
fixed in place
paper clips
keeping paper together
people clips
keeping people together
hold on tight
dont let go
keep the clip
never in place

paper clips
keeping the paper as one
people clips
holding no one tonight

brendan antonelli 2009

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

MFA visit response

On Friday, we spent the last hour of class at the Museum of Fine Arts, looking at a variety of photographic images. All of these images by a variety of artists stood united, connected wonderfully by the shows source: human life. The two rooms in which the show is hung, have different sections of related photography. The sections themselves related through the source, but each focused on a different aspect if humanity. The human figure, features, and fears were a few of the individual themes of the sections.

I loved this show. The variety of images kept me entertained and challenged my way of seeing the human body. Everything was interesting and I loved the themed sections to help further indicate the source. The curation helped pull this show to great heights.

The image that stopped me in my tracks was the image "Narragansett" by Arno Rafael Minkkinen. The beach-like image of close up boardwalk with the human opened wide behind it. It is unfortunitly not the easiest picture to explain. The body is behind the boardwalk, and prominent. My initial feeling was one of understanding. I read this person laying next to the boardwalk, seemingly in pain as a doormat. Walk all over him anytime he will take it. I unfortunitly have succumbed to being a doormat for many years of my life and no the feeling oh to well. My person identificaion with this piece really helped me to understand the entire show more.

I absolutely need to see this show again!