By Eliana Garcia, Arts & Media editor
This week in DIN blog we are taking it back to 2010. We are viewing "Taking Its Place" by, Vanessa Lowe.
Here we see a picture that depicts a tall glass building with a tree in front of it. The picture is taken in a way that makes the building seem as though it goes upward forever. Even though the every inch of the photo is filled with the building or the tree, there is a sense of loneliness. It could be the way it is edited- black and white that create this ominous sense or it could be that the only thing that exists in this frame is the building and the tree. This photograph is a great example of how something so simple can elicit emotions.
This artwork shows the contrast of something that is new like the building and something that is "old" like the tree. In a way it seems as though this image is showing us that in many ways, we can be met with old mundane ways like the comfort of what we used to know with new, uncertain ways that can be scary and intimidating. This photograph shows that we can still combine the two. We can appreciated and even miss what once was while still accepting and moving onto what is new. Whatever we are going through in our lives, the changes that are coming our way, I hope that we can look at this image and feel comfort that we can accept the new.
Eliana Garcia is from El Paso TX. Attending New Mexico State University, majoring in psychology. She enjoys all things literature and art. For as long as she could remember she wanted to be a writer, after working and more closely pursuing a career in the mental health field, her dreams have shifted but she continues to be enamored by reading and writing.
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