[Artist Talk] Alexandra Bell’s Bold Action
Alexandra Bell’s convocation is fascinating! When we are reading an article from a newspaper, we tend to subconsciously think about the stories as “facts” and forget about the subjective perspective that the news might contain. As reading closer and paying more attention to the wording, some problematic issues will appear. When I am viewing Bell’s actual work in the Wriston Gallery, I felt a strong sense of the artist herself being presenting into her works: The way she changes the layout of the newspaper, and the way she marks or highlight some text is like what we do when we are reading a book or a textbook. The way her comments are written feel like we are exploring what is going on in her mind. The conversation she has with herself while reading the newspaper is successfully transformed into words with directional marks. Her work is brave and bold to me because she presents the thing that we all thought about but did not mind to actually bring it up. The way she uses black sharpie
