I think what makes everything work in Sue O' Donnell's show is the words she has on each work. You see a picture but the words explain the picture so well. She had multiple pictures of her younger years and had next to it an explanation to what the picture meant to her. The words on each of the pieces had a specific meaning to the piece of art that she had in the show.The picture has mostly black and white. She also uses geometric shapes with abbreviations in them. The bottom of the picture it says "Risk, Love and Realization." She uses lines to intertwine the lines and shapes so they cross each other. Also along the left side of the picture she has years from 1970-2006.
This picture is very interesting and looking at it I thought at first that maybe she was trying to say that throughout her life these three things, Risk, Love, and Realization, all intertwined. But then I was thinking about how she had the years along the left hand side of the picture and why they were there. I think that she put the years there because in those years she had one of those three things happen to her. She has Risk, Love, and Realization plotted like a graph next to the years on the picture. In 1970 she had a risk that she made and as you go down the years she shows you that she had either love, risk, or a realization. Sometimes she had more than one at a time in the same year. It is interesting to look at and see how many risks she had to take or when love appeared and to see the realizations come in as well.
When I first looked at this piece it took me awhile to understand the meaning and I think you did a good job of explaining it. I think the piece shows how risk, love and realization led to one another through out Professor O'Donnell's life. I also think that the way she intertwined risk, love, and realization using the straight geometric lines added to the image instead of just have the abbreviations floating in their own space. It was interesting to see these moments put into such a mechanical form like a time line or graph. It makes you wonder what those moments in her life were and why at sometimes all three occurred closer together and why at other times none of these three events happened.
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