Art:21 Yah!

Art:21 is such a an interesting and helpful website. Where else will you go to watch clips of artists at work and explaining their works and process at same time. You can just roam down the list of artists that they have and watch a clip of them at work or you can also write their name on the "search box" to find a specific artist. I also like that for each artist they give a background of where they come from and a description of the type of work and themes that they focus on. One of the artist that I found and love now is a man name Pepon Osorio. He does a lot of detailed, collage based installations on the idea of identity and culture. He wants people to react to his works and give their own interpretation of what the work means to them. He also did this project where he created for a family he knew a collage doll house that went through fire, with items knocked about the place and the family standing outside of their home in grief. Basically he is trying to portray a narrative piece of this family's life experience. What makes this project so cool is the "home visits" that he does where the art piece would be display within a person's house for a week, and they would have people come over to view the work that is one display at that person's house.  After a week passes, the art work move again to another home and stays there for a week to again allow people to come into that person's home to view the work, and it keeps going on, hence the term "home visit."I just find the idea of home visit to be really cool and would like to try something within that nature in the future.