I just thought this image is beautiful!

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I was super excited about seeing Cai Guo-Qiang. I was not disappointed! I had never heard of anyone doing paintings out of explosions, and it was really cool! The effect was awesome and I loved that you never really knew what you would get! I loved his pieces of arrows or something sticking out of the tigers and cars. They were great because it caused the influence on the audience that he intended--pain. It really was uncomfortable to look at the tigers especially.

Oliver Herring was AWESOME!!! I had never heard of him before, and just the opening scene inspired me! It made me want to do something similar--like a video of somekind. I also loved loved loved the photographs of the men with paint on their face. It was really cool to see how he did it and then watch him while he took the photographs and see how he captured the vulnerability he was talking about. I could totally see it! The photographs were stunning.

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I LOVED Judy Pfaff's piece she did, "Buckets of Rain". I cannot imagine doing a piece as large as that! I thought the tree roots was an amazing idea. They turned out beautiful! I'm am sorry that this piece was the result of her losing so many loved ones in the same year. But she made an awesome piece because of it!

I also liked Mark Dion's piece he did with the rats. It was gross and disgusting, but I love the history and research he did to give the piece more history and meaning. Also the "Neukom Vivarium", was great too! I guess my favorite part about it was when he said that it was about the difficulty of recreating what nature does on its own. I fell in love with the piece after I realized what it was about--because it is so true! All the machines and contraptions he had to set up and spend money on and build himself, nature just does it on its own--just a normal circle of life kind of thing.