12/7/16

Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts

Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, “Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann uberlasst mich den mauerseglern)”, features Althoff’s artworks that was created throughout his artistic career. Curated an designed by himself, this exhibition features a variety of artworks ranging from drawings, paintings, photographs, mannequins, antiques, figurines and shoes.

Identified as a person with little to no interest in art, my first visit to an art exhibition was met with a mixed-feeling. I was looking at the artworks with such amazement but what’s the meaning behind them? Is there even a deeper meaning to them?

One section of the room, for example, showcase a dirty piles of luggage and broken ceramic pieces spilling out of old suitcases. What’s the purpose of this artworks?

As I navigate my way through the maze, one drawing did caught my attention. It was an untitled (2016) black and white sketch of a boy in his early twenties standing in a field of grass. It wasn’t particularly elaborate as the other artworks in the exhibition. But something about this boy attracts me to him….

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11/12/16

Sigmund Freud: Family Romance

How did Freud came into the conclusion that when the child enters a second sexual stage they will ponders sexual scenarios where he brings his other (who is the subject if the most intense sexual curiosity) into situations of secret infidelity and into secret love affairs?

In addition, Freud claimed that this process of growing up was far more prevalent in boys compared to girls. He dismissed it as “the imagination of girls apt to show itself much weaker.”

11/3/16

Activity: Create Your Own Lark

It’s going to be a bad day. She just know it. As Jo Yee makes her way towards her bus stop at 23rd Ave, she was met with the cold autumn breeze. When the Q65 (Limited Jamaica LIRR) bus finally came, she sighed in relief. “Finally!!! Warmth!!!”, said Jo Yee. Just like Jo Yee, Richard Longbottom was relief by the sight of the incoming bus. As he stares at Jo Yee, he thought what a puny child she is. “She probably won’t said anything if I cut right in front of her”, thought Richard. Just like that, Richard made his way into the bus by forcing himself through the entrance. “Urghh!!”, thought Jo Yee. What a day to be alive! What a drag! As she angrily makes her way to Baruch College.