On Tuesday night at 3 a.m., a time when most students -- all right, perhaps three-quarters of students -- are asleep, the senior art majors were still up in full force.
When asked for comment at this unusual hour, the graduating art majors had one thing in common: they were exhilarated, ecstatic, and utterly exhausted.
"I will write to you tomorrow," Diego Rotalde '05 wrote in an e-mail, "since I am very sleep deprived and must sleep now."
Sleep, however, was probably a worthy sacrifice, as the seniors put up months (and sometimes years) of work for all to see in their senior art exhibit, which opened yesterday morning.
This exhibit is a chance for the seniors to differentiate themselves from their peers and explain all those absent nights from their dorms.
sportsbook This was a chance to justify countless orders of A1 Pizza, China King, innumerable cups of coffee and Red Bull.Above all, this was a chance for the artists to transcend their heartache and toil for the elation that comes only from the fruition of creativity.
The projects themselves are as diverse as their creators, from photos, to sculpture, to paintings.
Equally diverse are the sources of inspiration; Christine Ng '05 found her inspiration in a fabric still life, leading her to paint highly original pieces.
"[They] fall between abstract and representation," Ng said. Her art, like the mixture of cloths that she paints, is kinetic in its structure.
Some of the art projects take a more unusual form: Rotalde's project, for example, is nowhere to be seen within the
Sport bettingwalls of the art gallery. It is a Web site detailing the work and the inspiration that went behind many of the pieces in the exhibit. The explanation of the art, then, becomes the art itself -- the Web site becomes a visually poetic tribute to the efforts of his peers, and a window for the community at large to see.
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