The Mishkin Art Gallery
On Thursday, members of LC 20 went to the Mishkin Art Gallery. It was located on the 23rd street. After we have made sure that everyone was there, we headed to the gallery.
First, I had no idea how the place would look like and what kind of art would there be, so I thought the Mishkin Art Gallery was like one of those galleries you see in museums. When we first walked through the door, the Gallery surprised me. What we saw was photographs of various social groups hanging on the wall. Normal museum will have enormous varieties of art like sculptures, paintings, status, etc., which are too complex and boring. Personally, I like photograph because it is easy to understand. The design of the room was interesting; there were walls that were designed to make the room look like a maze, the design allows more photographs to be hanged.
The director gave us a tour; she explained that the theme of the photographs was social groups. Everyone belong to a certain group, everybody belong to their family group. Aside from that, there are the school groups, the club groups, the military groups, the music groups, etc. You can belong to any social groups you can ever imagine. One of the groups that stroked me was the military children; the director mentioned the movie Blood Diamond which was a movie related to the military children. I told myself that I would watch the movie when I get home. The other social group that caught my attention was the Rwanda Genocide group. This group caught my attention because when I was in Junior High School, I saw a movie relating to the genocide in my social studies class. I left the gallery with understandings of the meaning of social groups. As human beings, we need companionships to make our lives more interesting. Even though there are bad social groups, but I believe that there are more good social groups.