Central Europe Installation

Here are two images from the sculpture / memorial installation the students from my Jewish Heritage class created for the annual study abroad exhibition at the College of Arts + Architecture. It involves a mapping of deportation routes of specific individuals from the cities we visited to the camps we visited mapped against our bus route on the trip. In the background on the wall you can see the work of the students who took digital photography / photoshop as their second class on the trip.

Picture Rearranging / Mom and Dad Visit

Mom and Dad were here a couple of week-ends ago. The point of the trip was to see Obama speak, but we lost our seats for that event when it moved from the outdoor football stadium to the indoor basketball arena because of rain.

But they did bring with them a painting that is on loan to us from Cecilia and Harald, which I hung over the fireplace in the family room. I definitely think the white looks great against the gray brick wall. However, its a little big for that spot. When I find something that goes with it well to put in that spot, I think I'll move it to the right and hang it where there is more space above and below.

The picture that was there, the lovely layered photo Miran took of trees reflected in water in Sarajevo, got moved up to our bedroom. I'm really happy with this. In addition to filling what had been a blank spot for years, I think the muted colors of this picture look much better and it really pops against the bright green wall and in a room that gets more light.

And we also moved a bookcase from IKEA that was in my office at work home and installed it behind the couch in the family room. That area was kind of dead space so now it feels much more useful. I still haven't put anything on it, but my plan is to combine fiction and art objects.