As my group and I were searching for something to frame, we stopped by the white tower near the NOW sculpture where we found a flower laying next to the light. We tried to cut the tape but we had some very thick tape that we just couldn’t cut. When all the tape was gone, the person who had brought the tape used the plastic roll of the tape as the frame. The flower is a small flower with no stem, just the pedals and the stamen all in tact, no stem. The pedals of flower are a nice red/pink with a bright yellow middle. It looks like a very simple flower, but no matter how simple it looks, the flower is much more beautiful and pleasing than it may seem. It is very clean and it looks healthy, although dead. Out of all the other flowers, the cut down flower was the most healthy and beautiful looking. The flower was aesthetically pleasing simply because flowers are beautiful and make everyone feel almost calm and relaxed due to their bright colors and what they can mean. Since our flower was cut down from the rest, I immediately noticed that it looked very innocent. Since it was the best looking and the cleanest, it looked like if it was the purest flower. The innocent one that was cut down by someone. The flower innocently laid there on the light and we came along and put a white plastic roll around it almost as if putting it in a coffin. And although it was a coincident that our frame was white, I look at the picture now and think it was a good thing that the roll was white since white can be connected to innocence and purity, which is what the flower deserved. To me it can represent how the real world can be. How it can be so cruel and dirty. How the innocent or those who do not know better often take a major hit by someone who did them wrong or hurt them. To me, the flower was always art, even before we put the frame around it. The frame just simply allowed us to make the flower our center of attention and our center of thought, which allowed us to interpret it as art. After we remove the frame, the flower will be art only to us, however, not to anyone else, since they do not know the flower is there without the frame. I believe anything can be art, however, it depends if the individual wants to classify whatever as art. It lies on the individual to use their feelings and knowledge to really think about whether or not art is in the object they look at or not. Therefore, they individual must be viewing the object in order to understand it and then classify it as art or as something else in the world.
Imanol's Blog 