While walking out of the design building today, I stop in the gallery and saw this beautiful work of art by Elena Brebenal, the show is titled Encoding [quiet memories] and is a MFA thesis exhibition. It was so intriguing that I had to take photos. I left very inspired and was so glad that I happened to look in the gallery!

Today in class we turned in allllll the work and you could tell everyone was exhausted, it was great to see all the finished works with the books and words mounted on mat board. Also I enjoyed walking through the other classes and seeing the similarities and differences. For our next project we going to be creating lights or lanterns and for us to get a start, we are supposed to make 25 "skins" or experiments with paper to understand the form. Ive already started some and have had fun just playing!!

This evening I attended the film "The Visual Language of Herbert Matter" which was shown at Liberty Hall here in Lawrence. I saw lots of familiar faces in the crowd and once the film started I was very intrigued, the man was a true designer who could work under any circumstances as long as he was working. What an inspiration, he had been all over with photography and design, coming up with design that still seem modern today. It was so great that the film was brought to Lawrence and I am very glad I got to attend. For me as a student is soothing to see other designers and their journeys...

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see"
                                          Henry David Thoreau