WARP: Dejaney Ibarguen

The air smells of petrichor, the trees and grass are colored like an icy lake. The sky is a dark charcoal gray, it’s clouds looking as though they are about to burst into tears any second now. The lake resembles dull cotton candy. This park is constantly under a dark shadow, causing every little being that is a part of it to look overcast. The Nobodies Park, that is it’s name. The dead walks here, they kill time here. It is a place for relaxation and reflection. They are not yet in the after life nor are they where alive beings reside. They are the nobodies. They are not infuriated, tormented souls. They simply live within this state of limbo. They aren’t particularly jubilant about it, but they also aren’t bitter with their circumstances. They live within harmony, their minds at peace with their current position in the world. The time spent here is an unknown, and that is perfectly okay with each individual inhabiting this park. You can view it as a somber situation, pitying the sou...

A section I found particularly interesting at the Wolfsonian Museum was Portraiture & Personhood within their Art & Design in the Modern Age exhibition. As it focuses on the machine age, I liked the approach of communicating these messages of political differences, social changes, technological developments, etc. through portraits. Portraiture is really divine in the way it works and how it can help portray a message. One’s face and body language can tell a story in itself, so the route of using portraits so create work communicating these themes can be highly effective, in my opinion. One of the pieces that caught my attention was Subway by Daniel Ralph Celentano. This oil painting consists of a crowded group of people on the Subway. It clearly tells a narrative and provides one with a lot of detail and information. When I viewed it, I already liked the aesthetic portion about it and the heavy New York feel one would get from simply looking at it. Though the message be...