Outside Cultural Event #3

          Last week I had to opportunity to go and visit the 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition located on the first floor of the fine arts building. When I walked into the exhibition, I got this sense of something dark and gothic. There were projections all over the place of dark and creepy images that at first really threw me off. However, I stayed there and continued throughout the whole exhibition. To me it seemed like the theme was gothic and dark until I got to the section with the plates. One wall in the exhibition was covered in plates from what appeared to be a “gothic lunch”. These plates were colorfully painted and had a bunch of different phrases or sayings written on them. They intrigued me and I enjoyed looking at them and reading all of them.

         When I finished walking around the exhibition, I was puzzled with what it was about and what the theme of it was so I decided to ask someone who was working there. Her response was something along the lines of “Is there a theme? Sometimes you just have to look and try to find something deeper than what is on the surface”. At first this bothered me because it made me feel awkward and like it was unusual that I did not understand, but looking back I am kind of glad that she said what she did. It made me realize that everything is not always tied together and placed under a common theme, especially with art. Overall I am glad that I went out of my way to attend this event because it is not something that I would usually do. It was quite the experience and if presented the opportunity I would definitely attend something similar to this again.