Observations about Observation.

Like Jordon, I too want to talk about pages 20-22, I think, about observation. I found this particularly relevant because of our 50 of one objects project. Reading how close observation of the natural world is less and less common, I agree that TV, PC's, I-Pods, cell phones and video games give us constant synthetic soundbite imagery. Monika said early on how we need to learn how to really look at something. I also found the paragraph about the vanishing silphium plant timely after Mel Chin's lecutre and how so many of his projects involve reviving the environment. I wished that I had thought to ask him if he keeps a journal. It is interesting when you think that observation is important to both the artist and scientist, and I like the obvious statement that the journal serves as a place to record observations. Also, I was talking with some friends while waiting for the lecture to start and I told them about drawing our 50 drawings. One of my friends told me about a friend of his at another school who took a drawing course where they only drew one object for the entire semester. Interesting. ann