I thought the exhibit was very interesting. It seemed like the exhibit as a whole was cohesive in that I thought all of the pieces had something to say about how people see the world and travel through life. I noticed how the work of the different artists were displayed. Some of the artists had their work in frames with a white border and another had just the canvas with nothing else around it. I liked how there was no fame on some of the work, because it made them seem more open and since most of the pieces were of outdoor scenes I thought that decision was very appropriate.
The piece that really caught my attention was what looked to be an urban graveyard. There wasn't much color to the piece. The composition was very open towards the outside and had more going on in the middle of the picture. There were many straight lines, crosses, and triangles in the picture. The colors consisted of white, grey/slate, splashes of red, and brown.
I read that the pieces the artist was displaying had to do with his past in a different country and his present in our society. When I looked at the urban graveyard it seemed very dismal, sad, and out of place to me. The colors and composition made it feel very desolate to me, because everything was so simple and end empty. I was saddened by it, because it's a graveyard and I thought there should be flowers and grass to make it softer, but I understand that there are places where this is completely normal. The picture made me think that this graveyard had been forget in time, because it had looked like no one had taken care of the crosses or stone and the fence had blocked it from the outside world. The splashes of color did make me hopeful that this place that seemed so empty could become vibrant again even if it is just a graveyard.
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