On Sunday September 10th I visited the Bernadette Mayer Memory exhibit on 333 Broome St at the Canada Gallery. My English professor assigned us to visit the gallery after we read excerpts of her book Midwinter Day. I personally found the excerpts to be boring with alot of run on sentences so expected the gallery to be uninteresting. When I entered the gallery there was no one there except for the people working upstairs. At the gallery there were two benches and a huge photo album on the wall. There was also a check in station with a handout and a sign in sheet. However when I got there there I was pleasantly surprised with the numbered them was interesting because there didn’t seem to be a particular order to the numbers. way the gallery was organized. I initially expected there to be other rooms with different exhibits however there were was a concrete room filled with snapshots of Bernadette and her family life. There was a loudspeaker in which Bernadette narrated what was happening in the photos. As i sat down on the bench I noticed that many of the pictures were random snapshots of her life. In class we compared the exhibit to Instagram feeds. Visiting the Memory exhibit made me appreciate Midwinter Day more and understand why she decided to take her pictures in that way. The Bernadette Mayer Memory exhibit assisted my first semester at Baruch by showing me that art galleries don’t have to be huge rooms with famous paintings on the walls but something more simple. It also made me more interested in the English course I’m currently taking because the initial classes felt like a typical class in which you submit writing assignments and essays. Overall it was a great first experience during my first semester at Baruch.