McColl Center: pt 2

So, I have to admit that I enjoyed this visit to the McColl center a lot more than the last visit.  The work was a lot of interesting and fascinating to look at.  Not only that, but a lot of the pieces were interactive so that made it all the more better.  The form of presentation in all of the pieces were creative and worked for each piece, it was part of the piece.  If they were to install any of the pieces different, it would not have worked.  For example, the piece with the skulls that blurred as you got closer.  I like how a lot of the pieces had to do with reflections or the physical components of a person. 

I loved the piece that required you to sit down in front of a mirror and then after a couple seconds you would be engulfed in fog and you would watch yourself disappear.  It's amazing how something so simple had so much meaning.  It was fascinating.  Admittedly it scared me when the fog engulfed me but it was something else to watch my reflection disappear.  I also like the pieces upstairs where you had to touch the wall and it would give off either low or high pitched sounds.  It was so much fun!

I also liked the huge paintings that this one artist did that I got to talk to.  They were very colorful and looked like so much fun to do.  I liked how there were paint blobs and how he created parts that looked like masking tape.  He even used cartoons in his paintings.  They were fascinating to look at and you can tell that each painting had multiple layers, multiple layers of hidden meaning.