Melvin Kem
Art 110
Glenn Zucman
March 28th, 2020
Nature’s Candance
In the midst of the world in which we currently live, art provides the comfort and reassurance in which we so desperately need. In today’s artist conversation, we’re focusing on Iran-born artist Mahsa Soroudi. She moved to Newport Beach shortly after leaving Tehran five years prior. At the begining of her artistic career, she started wide-eyed and rather optimistic. However, shortly after living in the States, she soon came to the realization that adapting to the environment in which she now lived was much harder than it seemed. The inability to relate to American culture including the people, art, and music became more frustrating as time proceeded.
After taking a look at photos from the opening of “Nature’s Candance”, we can see that the theme of “Nature’s Candance” is based off of Soroudi’s love for art and passion for taking care of her plants. As a reflection of what allowed her to get through her life, she took this time to take whatever allowed her to keep pushing thorugh and share it with those in her life. The plants took form in different shapes and sizes, different species, texture, and finally decor. The plant pots were of varrying colors and so were the plants, specifically brightly colored. The formal qualities in which the opening of “Nature’s Candance” contained included brighter, primary colored plants, specifically succulents with typically smoother texture to the plants used in the exhibition. The plants were all going in different directions, some straight, jagged, crooked, with some being on the smaller scale and others visible from a further distance.
My experience as I was taking a look at how beautiful the art was is something that sort of screamed peaceful to me. It reminded me to take time to relax, to meditate, and really be grateful for what is given to us in life. Especially during the COVID-19 occuring right now in our world, it becomes very prominant what we did and didn’t appreciate, from being able to just cruise along the beach and hang out with friends, to going outside and taking a nice stroll to the park. The plants really allow for us to come back to nature and ground ourselves, just like these plants do the same
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