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At the ps1 Moma Museum Trip this is one of the works that caught my attention. It is Angels Dusk 2015 by Greg Parma Smith. What the artist is communicating is how as seen by the angel faces that they are always there and particularly can be seen at dusk. This piece does not address any social issues. The artwork is innovate and especially creative due to the depiction. It makes me think about the world in a new way by helping me to see more that is not there.  Think the likes of depictions of guardian angels that people are used to seeing. Such as Charlie from all dogs go to heaven, and It's A Wonderful Life. That was a really good film the name of the guardian angel was Clarence Odbody. 

Another work that caught my attention at the PS1 Moma Museum Trip was this one by Lebbeus Woods. The name of this work is Invix Da, 1977. It is a mixed media work. The materials used were etching, gesso, graphite, oil crayon on OSB, wooden dowels, metal screws and Plexiglas. At this time Lebbeus Woods works did not tackle any social issues. In his later works from 1988-1995 and beyond however he did. Woods art is creative and especially creative because he was an architect and artist. The curators he joked were his first clients he kept pushing himself making his work bigger and bigger to fully utilize the space he was given to occupy. He recently had an exhibition at the Drawing Center in SoHo Manhattan through June 15. What the artist is comminicating is how myths take on a life of their own through different interpretations and mediums. The way this makes me think about the world in a new way is that I see since long before the 1940s artists have been drawing inspiration from the comic art style. Think Captain America, The Red Skull, World War II, the fall of the Germany. Woods investigate concepts of war, reconstruction, territorial division, and autonomy. Woods drawings strike the perfect balance between light and dark, hard and soft, old and new. Woods was “radicalized” as a result of two events: a large exhibition of his work in London in 1985 and a visit to Sao Paulo’s favelas in 1987. The exhibition drew Woods out of his New York studio and “into the milieu of postmodernist cultural and intellectual debate,” according to the 2004 publication Lebbeus Woods, Experimental Architecture, establishing his name internationally as a teacher and radical thinker. At first sight, they appear desolate, uninhabited, post-apocalyptic, and forlorn, composed of various parts of scrap metal or reassembled war machines; yet there are traces of habitation, lab towers filled with instruments, and spherical light machines for communication. Lightweight structures are connected in complex networks at various scales, along with shadowy human figures.  Woods explored Einstein’s ideas through a new lens: urban systems and cybernetics, inspired by the experiments of Heinz von Foerster. Von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist and early architect of cybernetics in the 1950s and ’60s. Woods encountered him during his first years in architecture school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where von Foerster was a professor of electrical engineering. In these early series, Woods was very much interested in technology and cognitive science, and integrated cybernetic concepts such as self-organization and communication networks into experimental urban plans.