Done
with Midterms! Travelling this weekend to Huaraz, which as far as I can tell is
one of the most beautiful, pristine places on earth. So excited! Also, today is
Emma’s birthday. Happy Birthday sweet girl!! You’re my favorite Dutchie by far.
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| photo of a photo by a Dutch artist at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo |
Last
weekend, as a study break, I soaked up some culture in La Noche en Blanco
(The Night in White) in Barranco, Lima, which is a bohemian artsy district. The
first word that comes to mind when I think of Barranco is “personality.”
Everywhere you look, you can spot something with character whether it is an
olive green house with 70’s style drapes or a restaurant where everyone sits on
sofas or the abandoned railroad cars scattered across the district, wood and
iron playmates in the parks.
And
then add art! Add color, add thousands of people, add weird videos and statues
and dances that I don’t even understand. That’s La Noche en Blanco.
Beauty. Interpretation. Interaction: people and art. Which is what it should
be, no? What is the intention of art? For me, it is to get in touch with the human core, to
understand ourselves better, to reveal, to critique, to praise, to be—on another
level. And if we as viewers cannot participate in art, then has it not failed
in its intention because by not letting us interact with it, the artist has
therefore cut off the art’s human ties, excising its connection to humanity and
losing the very essence of the work? That’s why La Noche en Blanco is so
brilliant; it makes art accessible to the public by putting it out on display
for us to see and marvel at and question as a community.
I have no idea what anything
was intended to be,
and I don’t have an interpretation
for
most of the pieces.
But I saw
and was opened
to a
new way of looking
at the world,
of
exploring
life.
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| the bottom says "Querer es poder" "When there's a will, there's a way" |
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| paper birds! |
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| aves...en blanco! (same photo as above) |
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| La virgen |
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| This was just a display of random stuff...so i re-made it art with the photoshop |
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| Chairs were stacked in weird sculpture-like patterns all over this park |
Sorry for so many photo effects...had to disguise the blurriness somehow. Pictures are difficult to capture at night!
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