AMosquera. class reflection 4/11

 Today we had a guest speaker, Jenee Mateer, a photography teacher. She has a webpage and has met our teacher in conferences, he is inspired by her work. She is showing us her new body of work Entropy, a degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system. Wabisabi is the Japanese aesthetic related to tea ceremonies.  Pharmakon means poison or cure, language is uncertain and has many interpretations, and is used in her work, with the same name. The pictures look like different things other than what they are. One of the pictures relates to the story of Adam and Eve; she uses their story and how it relates to more modern tales like snow white, and how Eve was tempted by the serpent. In 2018, she was inspired by Alice and Wonderland where she discovers herself, and used the flowers roots that look like humans to show some of the characters. More pictures are apart of this work, Mateer thought about how when Alice eats different things, is changes her size, so she connected it to the saying "You are what you eat," saying what you eat tells you what you are and what you desire. She talked about the still lives that are purposefully arranged, and how is relates to her new work Entropy. The layering creates heat and color that makes the mind compose similar objects, but on a closer look appear to be noting identifiable due to the cause of decay. In the garden there is a concurring and beauty in the ripe and rotten, showing how energy does not disappear but rather transforms, pushing the ideas that beauty can be seen in ugliness. Her work has a lot of meaning behind them, making them even more interesting. When she showed the video of the constant changing composition, I saw many faces, and it reminded me of the those black and white blobs that psychiatrist use.