Briana Carter
9/23/14
Art 21

     Mark Dion's work is really interesting. Especially the dead tar rats. Something that really caught my attention was the part where he said that the tree he had found was dead, but it was still giving off life. That opened up my mind to so many new passageways. I was thinking about death, and how death gives room in this world for the new. Maybe a possibility of tomb stones? It also comes back to my other thought about the abandoned buildings. It is something dead, but things are growing on it and it is giving room for people to replace them.
     Intigo Mangiano-Ovalle's work really confused me. He is talking about black wholes and his one piece was a man standing on water surrounded  by plants. Trapped. But when he started speaking about his large painting with the script, it hit me that it was kind of like cancer. How you are kind of stuck in this body and can never get out or away from the cancer if it can not be cured.