ART189 - Reflections
In my first project for Pomona’s ART189 - Writing Art class, I wanted to explore the idea of writing itself. From the perspective of utility, writing is a tool with a single general purpose: to save thoughts for later, to transform the fleeting nature of our own minds into a physical artifact.
For my project, I wanted to reverse this sort of utility associated with writting by making the writting itself ephemeral. To do this, I chose the steamed mirror as my media because very much like thoughts, writting on a mirror will at once be vivid before slowly fading away. While re-steaming the room revives what was written, the artwork will never return with such vividness as when it was first installed.
In the context of COVID, I used my own home to install my work. Driven by how periodic, yet disrupting working from home has been, I selected a message that I thought would be widely reaching in general as well as within my own family.
