I’m happy to say I learned some good stuff in World Art today.

Ah, the dreaded 3 hours of World Art, the class that comes after 2 Survey of Western Art classes. 3 hours of lecture and I’m about ready to stick my mechanical pencil in my eyes. Between my in-class texting (I’m so bad, I’m the worst student ever), I paid attention today, and boy, my mommy oughta be proud of me.

I learned about Dinh Q. Le, a Vietnamese artist who fled to America from Vietnam in the late 1970′s. When Le was growing up, one of his relatives weaved baskets. In his art, he takes large strips of photographs and weaves them together, which is called photographic weaving.

Pictured here is some of his work, most of which symbolizes the horrors of the Vietnam War. Take a look and notice the details in the pictures below. Crazy right?

Night Vision, 2008

Untitled from the Hill of Poisonous Trees (two men)

Mot Coi Di Ve which translate into “Spending One’s Life Trying To Return Home.”
Purchased at a secondhand store by L., this piece was woven together, corner to corner. It’s compiled of over 1,500 black and white photos of other people’s families.