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Ticket confirmation screenshot   On April 19th, 2022 I was able to experience something I had never thought I would. I went to an event scheduled and put on by the UCLA art department, approaching the event with a naive view. I had absolutely no idea what was in store. The piece was a response to the challenges and hardships that we faced, not only as a country but as a world. COVID-19 was the curveball that no one expected, the invisible enemy. Through the grit of community we have just started to see the other side of a pandemic that has shifted everything.  Image from the installation  Artist and UCLA Alum, Refik Anadol installed his “Moment of Reflection” on the grass of his alma mater. Anadol uses a combination of technology and art to create his medium, displaying what he calls “the mind of a machine.” The display used one massive screen to project the work of art as a moving image of a distorted nature. Seen above is a photograph taken during the show. The pie...

  Humans are extremely complex, both in their mental and physical senses. Physically we are made up of layers of tissue, bones, muscle, and fibers that all make daily activities possible. The internal systems control voluntary and involuntary procedures to let us continue going through our lives. Due to the complexities behind human anatomy, it takes multiple jurisdictions of education to properly analyze and understand it. Science and art walk hand and hand in the mission to dissect and understand bodies.  Image from Getty Center Currently, the Getty Center, a museum located in Los Angeles is hosting an exhibit titled “Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy” which illustrates those internal systems and how they connect to each other. Pictured above is a muscular figure taken from the exhibit, and the main quotes from the exhibit is “it takes artists and scientists to understand the human body” further exemplifying the crucial role of both parties.   MRI process As the ...

illustration of the first printing press  The development of new technologies leads to the progression of human “speed”. According to national geographic, “The advent of industrial development revamped patterns of human settlement, labor, and family life”. Industrialization has changed all aspects of life over the years, from how we think about building parts to what we see as base products to work off of. It has especially changed how we spread information. In the beginning the printing press made it possible to mass produce and have a wide distribution of knowledge, and as time has continued computers have only made that distribution faster. "Technology the death of art?" Some authors plague industrialization with the blame of removing individuality from art and culture. One of those authors is Walter Benjamin who stated “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition”. He views the use of mechanics in the art world as taking away ...

 Tuesday April 5, 2022 Lifeguard Sketch in 2pt perspective Throughout my entire life my passions have always been both math and art, and I have struggled to find common ground between them. For the longest time I was convinced that art was an entirely creative system and math always had a right answer, but when I started to study the formal drawing styles of architecture I have found commonalities between them. Through school, internships, and on site drawing I continue to develop an understanding for the interaction between math and art.  DaVinci's Virtuvain Man  Pictured above is the vitruvian man, drawn and conceptualized by Leonardo DaVinci.The Vitruvian man is an image of a man superimposed upon himself and enveloped within a circle and a rectangle. The scale of the geometries allow for the artistic aspect of the drawing to connect to the mathematical sense of proportion. DaVinci took the ideas of proportion and “ideal” senses of measure and applied them to the art w...