Peter Peri

For this week's journal, I focused on Peter Peri. Peri's drawings are very different from the paintings of Anna Barbell last week. His recent paintings are linear geometric structures, which I have never seen drawings like his before...His drawings look pretty simple but kind of abstract to figure out what he tries to express in his drawings. I honestly stared at his drawings for a few minutes and tried to figure out what his drawings represent, but I failed to get his meanings in his drawings...so I had to read the explanations of his work. Personally, I think his works exhibit an almost alien logic that disorientates our understanding of perception...his works have been inaccessible to the public yet.

Anna Barrbell

This week, I learned about an UK artist Anna Barrbell. Most of her paintings are very common objects you can see everyday all around you. Rather than focusing on abstract objects, she focuses on exploring everyday objects through a variety of drawing processes such as tracing their forms. I honestly do not exactly know how she comes up with these drawing ideas, but it's fascinating that she even uses common supplies to create her paintings and sculptures, nothing fancy. One of my favorite works of hers was "door". She uses just a single pencil and a large piece of paper to make a door by placing a large piece of paper on a real door and rubbing it with a pencil elaborately. When I first looked at this work, I just thought it was a simple door. HOWEVER, it was a paper door that was placed on a real door!!!!!! What a surprise!