Reflection
From art works in Nash Gallery M.F.A thesis exhibition, the most interesting piece was Gail Heidel's work.
It was at the middle of the gallery, and made of bricks. The reason that I like the piece among other is that the piece looks like "lego" that I loved to play with. When I was a child, everyday I spent 5 hours to play with lego. I made car, airplane, train and many other things. And, at the end of the play, I always designed to make a city in my room. Because the city is made of many buildings and complicate roads, it was fun to design. My city was somehow interrelated to its elements, and Gail Heidel's work reminds me the city. As my city, his work looks like interrelated to its elements. Each buildings that made of different shapes of bricks are interacting with others. To me, it looks like a giant city or computer system.
When I watch the piece in specific, the center of the work is made of bricks that have cube shape. The brick was a perfect normal brick shape, and didn't have dates on it. The center was made of "prototype" bricks. However, when it goes to outside of the piece, the buildings were made of distinctive brick shapes. To me, the changes looked like an "evolution" of the bricks. Thus, I felt time passage from the work. Around the piece, there are a lot of bricks that have different shapes, and it looks very interesting.
Because the piece was made of one kind of material, it unifies whole works. However, because the shape of the bricks are all different, it also made me to feel variety at the same time. The work shows two different things (unity and variety) at the same time.
The coexistence of Unity and variety is not expressed in only material itself. It is expressed in the structure of the piece, too. As I said, it looks like a city that perfectly designed. However, at the same time, at the out side of the piece, there are several buildings and bricks that are not just in order. The structure of the work looks like planed or designed in center, but not in outside of the work.