I went to Tufts University and looked at an exhibit by Nancy Holt titled Sightlines. Tufts University has a really strong connection with the arts that I did not expect or know about. This gallery exhibit for Nancy Holt had a lot of work and was very interesting to look at.
Nancy actually went to Tufts and graduated in 1960 with a degree in Bio. She then decided to explore video and photo. Her work explores different parts of landscape, challenging you to focus on the little details of a particular spot. I particularly liked her piece Views Through a Sanddune, 1972 where she teamed up with URI and placed a cylinder through a sand dune making you focus on a small aspect of the landscape in the background. Depending on which way you looked through the cylinder in the sand dune, you saw two small landscapes of the ocean, both different.
You can see how she is combining her science degree and her artistic skills in a lot of her work. All of her work has to do with the surrounding environment of these cylinders that she creates. It is almost as if she is creating “the center of the world”. These cylinders are common in almost all of her work. I think this idea of focusing in on a small aspect of something really large goes along with noticing the little things in life. There is so much that we overlook and take for granted. I think Nancy Holt wants us to slow down and look at the small things and appreciate what is in front of us.
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