Last week Thursday I took a trip to the Canada Gallery. The Canada Gallery is an art exhibit located on 333 Broome street. The gallery is currently displaying Bernadette Mayer’s exhibit titled “Memory”. Bernadette is more well known for her written works such as her autobiographic work “A Midwinter Day” and “Poetry State Forest”. The fact that she has an Art Exhibit is really interesting to me. Transitioning from written work to art work isn’t easy for many people, because in my opinion I feel like it appeals to different parts of the mind. So to be able to properly transition and still attract a good amount of attention is quite spectacular.
In the summer of 1971 starting on July 1st, Bernadette used a roll of film everyday to capture whatever interested her. The end result was a collection of over a thousand photos; The photos weren’t of anything special, but they were things that just intrigued and appealed to her. The photos were as simple as the railings of a staircase, and the most interesting photo was one captured of the edge of a cliff. I think what really made the photos so appealing was the use of basic photographic principles like the rule of thirds for example.
Overall the exhibit was very interesting and the audio pairing of it helped give me a deeper understanding of the whole situation.