Event 5 Fowler Museum

UCLA is blessed to house museums on campus. Fowler Museum reminds me that in the midst of all my academic classes, I should take time to smell the roses and appreciate art.

The event I attended was truly strange: Vivan Sundaram's Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem. Gagawaka featured recycled hospital materials transformed into interesting outfits. Postmortem highlighted different anatomic human structure. This reminded me of Art + MedTech: Sundaram recreated art from human body parts and used bandages or recycled x-ray films. This daunting idea underlines the closing gap between art and science.

Event 4 LACMA

My friends are in another class required to attend LACMA and observe ancient writing on artifacts (which surprisingly encompasses a lot more complexity than I expected). I decided it was the perfect opportunity to do a joint trip and head to Los Angeles’s famed LACMA together.

LACMA features the most bizarre arrangement of lampposts I have ever seen. It forms a perfect rectangle yet it is weirdly beautiful. It is truly a work of art.

At LACMA, I visited the James Turrel-Breathing Light exhibition. Involving art, mathematics, architecture, and science, this exhibition eliminates the viewer’s depth perception. Everything feels limitless and weirdly bizarre. This disorientation made me greater appreciate my ability to judge depth and distinguish how far away objects are.