GOCA Assignment

Part 1

 

The palace garden is really getting out of hand.  Where is the gardener when you need him.  I think I'm going to go for a walk and visit Link and Princess Zelda at her temple.

 

 Oh, maybe I shouldn't go to far in the metal forest.  It appears the tree is taking over that building.  I better find a way out of here.

 

 

 what is this?  I don't remember a fork in the road.  I better retrace my steps before I get really lost out here.

 

 

 That's right I brought my trusty compass with me.  According to my compass I just need to turn left here.  The temple should be up ahead.

There it is the Temple of Zelda.  Wow, it sure is a beautiful sight.  Let's see if Link and the Princess is home.

 

Fin.

Part 2

The artist Bill Starr suffers from physical and social challenges living with acute rheumatoid arthritis since the age of nine.  Because he is unable to comfortable hold the camera his method of photographing is to shoot multiple images in fast progression.  Then he sifts through hundreds of images to find the one that expresses the “moments of intensity”.  According to Berger “the camera isolated momentary appearances and in so doing destroyed the idea that images were timeless.”(Berger 18)  Bill Starr’s images express this destroyed idea of timeless by the shear multitude of images taken to a point of creating a moving still.  Starr is then able to pick and choice which image works the best for him and isolate it.  This perverts the image of being timeless and/or infinite as in a painting. “It was no longer possible to imagine everything converging on the human eye as on the vanishing point of infinity.”(Berger 18)  Where is the uniqueness of a painting anymore

“The invention of the camera changed the way men saw.  The visible came to mean something different to them.  This was immediately reflected in painting.” (Berger 18)  A painting represented a place where the portrait was taken.  It was unique.  Randomly shooting pictures with a camera steals the uniqueness of the image.  Now I realize do to his disability this is a way for him to express his art.  And I applaud him for having enough courage and determination to show society what he is able to accomplish.  But, according to Berger “The real question is:  to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong?  To those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?” (Berger 32)  So, who cares what I or anyone else thinks what makes art, art.  After all, words only distort what you should be visualizing.

Berger, John.Ways of Seeing.London.Penguin Books, 1972. Print.