We began our Fog & Mirrors tour by looking at sculptures from all sides. To conclude our tour, we walked INTO two works of art for a completely immersive, whole-body experience.
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| Richard Serra, My Curves Are Not Mad, 1987 |
First, we walked through My Curves Are Not Mad by Richard Serra. This work of art is made of two 44-feet long and 14-feet tall curved plates of metal placed just wide enough apart to accommodate a single person. The 3rd and 4th graders walked through this work of art in past years of the GROW program, but this was the first experience for the 2nd graders.
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| 4th grade |
While inside, we paused and looked around us: down at the ground and up at the sky, to our left and right, and to the front and end of the line.
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| 4th grade |
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| 3rd grade |
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| 3rd grade |
During a typical visit, walking through My Curves Are Not Mad is the highlight for students. However, our final artwork was arguably everyone's favorite part of the Fog & Mirrors tour. The students were thrilled to walk into Ann Veronica Janssens's Blue, Red, and Yellow, a pavilion installed in the garden as part of her exhibition.
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| Ann Veronica Janssens, Blue, Red, and Yellow, 2001 |
As we discussed while viewing the Aquariums, scientific concepts are integral to Janssens's work. Blue, Red, and Yellow heightens our awareness of color and light immediately after stepping inside - the pavilion is filled with artificial fog that changes colors based on nearby walls, which are (you guessed it!) blue, red, and yellow. Fog was our final vocabluary word, and the students defined it as "a cloud touching the ground" and "water vapor." The fog itself is so thick that you often cannot see beyond the reach of your arm. The students tentatively yet excitedly stepped inside.
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| 2nd grade |
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| 2nd grade |
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| 2nd grade |
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| 4th grade |
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| 4th grade |
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| 4th grade |
Afterward, students wrote about their experience and sketched Blue, Red and Yellow in their journals.
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| 3rd grade |
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| 3rd grade |
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| 4th grade |
Students were asked to write down words that described their experience. Responses varied between awesome, cool, strange, and scary (the most popular descriptions) to heavenly, epic, and "expectacular." No matter what they wrote, the students definitely had a memorable experience!
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