House Hafner

This is the House Hafner built by Hornung and Jacobi and are located in Southern Germany. I find the cantilever design of the house very strange as it sort of plays an optical illusion seeming to defy gravity. Strangely though this design works, with the serene natural green forest like background it is surprising that the sterile white of the house does not turn one off from the scene. In a way the stark white flows along with the natural green landscape not creating something harsh on ones eyes and although the house is obviously new construction it looks to be organic along with the land. 

Balloons are buttons

I love the way Augusto Esquivel used composition as his method of execution via sewing buttons to create the sculpture mimicking floating balloons. It makes me feel happy because it brings back the elated feelings balloons always brought me as a child but with the added new appreciation of the time it took to create such a piece as well as the creativity on the artists part to think up such an awesome creation.The artist says, “I am often obsessed with comparisons of reality and potential and the balance between them, in art: the idea of chaos in perfect order: an object seemingly solid to the eye can also be fragile and inconsistent to the touch; a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing.” I believe he did a great job of expressing himself because this is exactly what I got from the piece as well.

The Way Sarkozy Intended It

"The Way Sarkozy Intended It - Egyptian Artist Iythar Ghurab"

This is an Oil on canvas painting. I picked it because out of all the pictures I saw it captured me and motivated me to look deeper into it and see why the artist  chose to exclude the nose and mouth from this nameless women. It made me sad as well as angry because upon further research I discovered that the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of the French Law that bans the wearing of a burqa and a niquab, one would think the freedom to practice religion is a basic human right, apparently not.  The European Court of Human rights have already clearly shown whose side they are on and it is not with the people. This issue is of extreme importance because today it is France attacking Islam, but tomorrow will it be your country attacking your religion?