The Portland Art Museum in Oregon is a spacious place that desires for thirsty questions from the endless walkers that shrouds across the echoing halls. It’s also probably the first real museum that I’ve ever been to in my life. The building is tall as a Greek God that extends to the sky with a mighty aura that surrounds it that seeks for green paper. From the inside however, a largely wide area that behemoths with deep empathy that screams out “Look at me!” in every direction. Many things went through my mind as I explored the straight forwardness of a place. The first question that strike through me were the extinction of water fountains. With liquid container not being allowed during the exploration, what’s the need of killing off something that keeps us motivated to move through the flat surface of hollowness? That’s one thing that irked my nerves through my search of an Emmet Gowin show. Another thing was the lack of security and employees who help answer questions. The environment felt very empty and quiet. That could’ve been their purpose to create a mood where it makes the viewer think and create questions. If that …show more content…
His exquisite photos of mother nature intrigued me as they contained bleak statements of our earth’s nature in their soulless form. One of the many sepia artwork of his that had me standing with wonders fluttering my mind was the “Abandon Airfield and Old Hanford City Site, 1986.” The work before my time showed the widely vast flat area of an airfield. Containing the visual inside the frame were matters of blanks and spots of crosswords. When I first laid eyes on it, it ran towards the large “X” near the bottom middle. Abandoned was a broad term to use in the title as I saw it was surrounded by its true nature. Abandoned from living creatures indeed, not nature itself. Nature follows the course of every environment that it originally created (except for