Taylor Rients Thomas Beard Response Week 3

I was really pleased to see this week's reading about Shana Moulton. Despite her obviously confusing and colorful video art, I felt as though I needed more time to understand her story and understand what she was trying to say as an artist.

When watching the clips from class, I could not help but be reminded of Cindy Sherman, whom Beard brings up later on in the article. This connection is easily drawn by observing the use of color and the interesting perspective on pop culture mediums as a form of art. Both Sherman and Moulton have the ability to make people feel an emotion from their work, regardless of how confounding or bizarre.

Important points that Beard made include how objects have the ability to draw the camera's gaze toward it, people make films with things, not about things, and a piece has the ability to have multiple tones where the lines are not extremely defined.

Some questions I had when reading this article:
Why does Mouton have multiple installments of Whispering Pines? What does this do for the piece as a whole? What impact does this have on the work that came before it? What does this do for the reader?

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