Blog Assignment 1

I have recently been researching the work of Teresita Fernandez after seeing her exhibition at USF's Contemporary Art Museum, and was extremely fascinated by this untitled work from 1996. Partially based on a modernist design of a Parisian house designed by Adolph Louis (sp?), the work takes on a formal representation of a swimming pool. The viewer (pictured above) stands in the center and looks through glass panels placed around the perimeter. Around the outside of the pool, in the house's design, there were four narrow hallways with mirrors opposite the wall shared with the pool. A person standing in the hallway could theoretically gaze into the pool, and a person in the pool gaze through the glass and see themselves in the mirror on the opposite wall.

My fascination with this work springs from my fascination with voyeuristic points of view, and as Teresita describes it "a narcissistic gaze superimposed on a voyeuristic gaze." Each window representing the potential to see and be seen.

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Noel Dolla:
As I'm piecing together my memories of the past, and working with my project, I'm finding that the materials I have chosen and my artistic process has helped bring back memories I hadn't recalled. Since he suffers from amnesia, Noel Dolla uses art to help piece together his personal history. As he works, memories become clearer--and he makes series of works that slowly show his progress.

Sam Durant:
Durant uses inverted trees and roots in many of his works, and looking at his work gave me a slightly clearer idea of what I'd like to accomplish with the roots I'm constructing for my project.

Calder:
I'm attempting to build a wire form representing myself, and some of Calder's forms have been inspirational.
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