Final Comments on Visual Essays

I wanted to make a final post on the visual essays that were presented in class; sort of as a before and after. When we were first beginning, like I said in my first post about the visual essays, I was pretty concerned/trepidatious about the whole project in general, how it was going to progress, and how it was going to turn out.

One of the things that was mentioned in another post, and in a response in class was how interesting it was that the projects presented a lot of the same pictures (naturally since we are on Tech's campus), but presented different perspectives of the same element of art: for example the interactive nature as well as the impermanent nature of side walk chalk art around campus. Or, for example, the campanile, and how it was a memorial, or the height of it, et cetera.

The one statue on campus that was highlighted the most, I think, was the statue of Dean Griffin, shown here. I found another picture online, and liked how there was actually an element of visual art in it: someone has put a flower in his breast pocket!