Out of all the artworks viewed in class today through group presentations the one that truly spoke to me was “Your Blind Passage” by Olafur Eliasson. The artwork itself is a 90 meter tunnel filled with fog and a variety of different colors, normally one person would start at one end of the tunnel and the other on the opposite end. You then walk towards each other and go through the variety of different colors of fog. I’d have to say it was the thought of walking through the fog and being almost entirely “blind” to your surroundings that really attracted me to this artwork. It’s as if the person is going on a journey through their mind, it’s as if they’re soul searching. You don’t know where you’re going but it really makes a person think whether or not they’re life is blocked by fog and what they’ll see or feel when going through it. Olafur has a few other works in his gallery but out of all of them I feel that “Your Blind Passage” has the biggest affect on people.
English: Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Still image from the 2010 documentary “The Future of Art” by Erik Niedling and Ingo Niermann. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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