Not What It Seems

Last year my friend Lily Susskind won a 2011 Bakers Artist Award grant. She is a dancer and is the founder of Effervescent Collective which is a Baltimore based dance organization. They are amazing and you all should check them out the next time they have a show. http://effervescentcollective.org/

Lily had to turn in a photo for her award to be hung with her profile in the Baltimore Museum of Art and she asked if she could use one of the photos I had just taken of her and clearly I said yes! That meant that one of my photographs would be in the BMA.

I went to the BMA once the Bakers Artist Awards exhibit was up and took a look around at all the other artists that had made it. There was one that I was just fascinated with, it was the work of Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen. It was an installation that from far away just looked like floral wallpaper and even when I got closer all I could see was more floral wallpaper. Once I read the plaque next to the installation I took a closer look and realized that what I thought were just flowers were actually bombs and bullets and explosions. It was completely blown away and couldn't stop looking at all the little details on the wallpaper.

Check out their page on the Bakers Artist Awards page http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nominations/view/nolenstrals/