When you walk into the Whitney, you will be faced with this tall, wide, and blue elevator where it takes you to the 6th floor. Located on the 6th floor of the Whitney Museum, a painting that almost took up the size of the wall with a lifeless aura around it. The painting is called Felix Partz, June 5, 1994, by the artist A.A. Bronson. The painting features a deadly, skinny man with brown hair and brown bread dressed in a black and white collar shirt that looks far too big for him. Lying down on a polka dot bed with a black and red plaid blanket over his lower body, the man, Felix Partz stares ahead into the distance with his hollowed-eyes. His cheeks were sucked in due to the contraction of AIDS, his mouth slightly opened. There are many colors in the background surrounding him; the yellow, blue, red, purple pillows, but the sullen look on his face makes the colors look so dull. The painting depicted Felix Partz few hours before he passed away and A.A. Bronson wanted to show that even when one is near its deathbed, they are still part of us. A.A. Bronson was very detailed with the colors and had a special way of painting. If one looks closely, you can see that this painting was painted by dotting the colors on. Looking specifically at the polka dot bed sheets, each circle is created by dotting the colors, CMYK on top of each other. It is really intriguing, as you take a step closer to examine the colors on the canvas. The colors that lay on top of each other to create another color.
Author: m.li24
That One Friend
I have this one friend.
Known her for 8 years and we are close.
Very close because you know what they always say.
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
When we see each other, we don’t say nice greetings or nice words to each other.
Every time we speak to each other, the word, “hoe” always appear somewhere along the lines.
We always fight over petty stuff, like who should carry the stuff, “accidentally” stepping on each other, or who bought this first because we had the same school bag back in high school and we always argue who bought it first and who copied who.
None of us ever backs down on an argument because we hate losing to each other.
This has been going on for 8 years; bricking back and forth, we still have beef with each other and will continue to have in the future.
But this 8 years of fighting each other was also our 8 years of friendship.
Club Fair
Although I was already in United Chinese Language Association club, I still decided to go to the club fair to visit them and support them! Even though I am in a club, I never went to a club fair; I didn’t go to the one during conviction day because I just didn’t bother. I heard of the club from someone I know and joined their Facebook page for updates and that’s how I joined their first general interest meeting and it just went from there. Back to the club fair, I was amazed by what was happening, even though all the clubs weren’t present there. A lot of major clubs were and they were all welcoming and giving out free stuff, like free food, free drinks, free water bottles, free mugs, free t-shirts, and free condoms. It was interesting as this guy walked around the whole gym handing people condoms and people just hanging around for free stuff. I didn’t bother with the free stuff as I was too lazy so I stuck around for an hour at my club’s booth helping them pitch and taking their candies. Since standing around was boring, the chair members of the club decided to play limbo with the club sign and I joined for one round. Overall the club fair was fun, a lot of free stuff, too bad I was lazy that day or else I would’ve gotten the free t-shirts, they were cute. Anyway student life for me has been great, tomorrow we are having a mooncake DIY workshop, where we will be making mooncakes because today is the Moon Festival. I am looking forward to it because it is my first time making mooncakes, I don’t know how we will make it in a classroom but we will. Happy Moon Festival!
