Gallery

I chose the art work by 

Joe Blumb (Photomedia)

Questions being asked in his Research:

What can we learn about our culture form the buildings on a midwestern main street?

How does the appearence and function of a building evolve over decades?

Can we appreciate the hahazard beauty of humble commercial buildings?

How do sun,weather, time , and renovations combine to sculpt a buildings facade?

Locations: St. Marys KS/Hutchinson KS/Eudora KS/Starsburg MO

       The interesting aspect of this art work is the composition of the photos, Four photos- four square buildings that ultimately make a square on the gallery wall. Each one of these buildings has a similarity to another with the blue sky, old windows and timeless glow.

The questions the artist asked were a big part of why I chose this piece. Coming from a small town filled with timeless buildings these art work spoke to me in a soft way. Most people do not see the beauty and bones of the abandon buildings of these almost abandon old towns. These structures have stood through wars and celebrations, birthdays and deaths. All serving a different purpose for a different situation, and the outside is just the surface of what the buildings have gone through.

For me specifically being an Interior Design major the questions of space, weather, and time are interesting and make me question what that all means for the original intended design and what came out of it.

As a relation to what we have been learning in class, presentation is key and how it all collaborates together, with squares and structure being relevant in this piece and the four elements making one. Also another point is that design is everywhere around you, even the older parts of society were design and thought out at one point; with time comes change and some designs conform and other are dismissed.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

Winston Churchill