The time square exhibition! To be honest; it wasn’t my favorite. I feel like I learned more about advertisement and how to display my art in time square and the companies that run time square rather than the art that actually goes into it! The curator was awesome, make no mistake about that. But it was a lot more along the lines of talking about how to get it in and what/what not to do rather than the actual depth of the art itself. We did get to see an art piece displayed in time square that was physical. This was an inflatable space of multiple colors where I believe once you walk inside you experience positive feelings. When I walked into the space I was excited, but then I felt extremely underwhelmed. I thought it would be bigger. Part of that is my fault for expecting that because it’s in the middle of time square. But I didn’t really have a feeling of positivity after walking through that. Overall I enjoyed the Japanese society much more. There were so many pieces there that I really enjoyed! Such as the elevated chess board that had grass and trees on the bottom of it. As a dungeons and dragons player I really enjoyed that piece. It has everything I personally love. Which one of those things being taking big things and shrinking them down to a miniature size. Or calculating movement with squares which 1 square in DND is equal to 5 feet. Getting more ontrack I really enjoyed the playfulness of the pieces. There is a theme of Japanese playfulness in a lot of these art pieces. Yet in spite of that there is a deeper meaning with some of them. Such as the chess game with all white pieces. It reminds me of the meaning of the book All quiet on the western front. That meaning being that when it comes to war it’s not a matter of one side versus another. It’s a matter of people killing people. And there is a collection of Japanese literature and poems. I have no idea what the poems mean, but seeing Japanese calligraphy is really neat. In a way there is something artistic about Japanese characters. My one biggest gripe with the exhibit however was the curator. Make absolutely no mistake she was very polite and kind. However towards the end she took about 10 minutes to answer a single question. I find that a very big theme with a lot of these curators and artists is that they don’t have the ability to summarize. Again I completely understand being very passionate about what you do. But I don’t think it’s very neurodivergent friendly to go on for more than 5 minutes in something that you can say in 2 minutes. However, that is my only real criticism of the exhibit. The curator outside of that was phenomenal. She clearly understood a lot and is very knowledgeable. So this one goes in my top 5 I’d say.
