Exhibit
evokes
emotion
Celia Fox
Capital Times Staff
Shaped by the hands of a genuine
artist, truth makes the strangest fictions of
all.
The photographs on display in the
Gallery Lounge during the month of
October witness to the power of reality to
confuse and disturb, more than most lies
could.
Alida Fish's photocollages combine
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natural elements in unusual juxta
positions, cutting off an initial sense of
familiarity and forcing the viewer to
consider more than just the crisp forms
and jewel-like colors. Shape and shadow
give textural illusion as well as a sense of
uneasiness.
A delicate sadness inhabits Fish's
works, enhanced by a wistful longing in
the eyes of the various creatures pictured.
There is no mistaking this art for
nature photography after the first glance.
The composition owes more to the
tradition of still-life than to action
photography. These are not "slices-of
life," frozen moments of real events; they
are carefully posed all elements arranged
quite formally. An old-fashioned curio
display, a shadowbox, creates a similar
effect by grouping a variety of objects in
open-sided boxes within a common frame.
A photo that lends itself especially
well to the shadowbox interpretation is
#7, showing a sapphire and emerald snake
with a sliver of ruby tongue, white
flowers and a butterfly. The elements are
integrated only in a formal artistic sense,
leaving the viewer struggling for a sense
of meaning.
The most striking image in the exhibit
is an untitled piece depicting the face of a
monkey against a backdrop of high-rise
cityscape. The sense of the animal's
suffering imposed by the works of man is
even more haunting, because of the
identification with the humanlike features
that gaze at us.
The fantasy jungle gives no feeling of
peace. The recurring images of dead fish
are disturbing, when you consider the
artist's name.
You keep looking for the pins
transfixing the butterflies.
Diversity, from page 1
"it’s unlikely that we, the committee,
would actually develop a course," Bowers
said. "We're still looking for course
proposals from the divisions."
Bowers said he hopes the committee
will receive more proposals from the
"wide range of faculty at Penn State
Harrisburg."
"The vote in favor of a requirement is
the faculty's first step toward a
commitment in principle," he said, "to
improving the quality of student's
Humanities division head slams
door on faculty expression
T.J. Brightman
Capital Times Staff
HOLD IT. Here comes the latest Penn
State Harrisburg scandal which has sent
certain humanities faculty members into
screams, of protest regarding a particular
form of "open door policy."
It all started when William "iron fist”
Mahar, division head of humanities, put a
lock on the creative integrity of Western
Civilization, ordering faculty members to
remove posters, clippings and photos from
their office doors to make room for "new
mailboxes and handsome name plates."
Slap on your hip boots, it gets
messier.
Saying this might possibly be his last
official act as department head, Mahar said
it was a "done deal,” and that the
mailboxes were already in.
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Troy Thomas, associate professor of
humanities and art, was first in line to
express his displeasure when he sent out
his own memorandum asking other faculty
members to join him in a writing
campaign. Thomas said his chief concern
was a matter of expression.
In the memorandum leaked to the
Capital Times, Thomas wrote, "It seems
to me that our office doors are the last (and
only) preserve we have to express our
personalities and interests in this very
sterile building."
He added, "I stongly object that we be
forced into yet one more bureaucratic
maneuver."
The real problem that Thomas is
concerned about is not enough space for
large posters and announcements that
otherwise could be displayed without a
plastic mailbox sucking up the surface
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Trick-or-treaters from Stepping Stone, Inc. garbed in
Halloween attire parade around the Olmsted Building in
search of treats. Keli Fetterhoff, left,gives a friendly lion
smile while pumpkin Joey Lucas, right, munches on an
apple.
Photos by El in Marcel
area of the door.
To solve this problem, the Capital
Times sent out its Measuring Cor
respondent to get a real feel for the amount
of space these "little nuisances" actually
occupy. Here's what we found:
Size of office door- 6' 8" x 3'
(approximately 20 square feet)
Size of plastic nuisance
(approximately .80 square feet)
Remainder of door space- 2281"
(approximately 19.2 square feet for
expression)
Thomas' proposal was to let faculty
decide for themselves whether they wanted
a mailbox on their door or a system where
mail could routinely be picked up in the
office. This according to Thomas was
quickly shot down by Mahar
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