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I can’t help but pick favorites out of the artists that were presented in the first episode of ART 21. I found Sally Mann, a photographer known for her landscapes, and her family’s story the most interesting. I loved hearing about her processes, and how her art shaped her life and makes her the artist she is. I really liked how she talked about her art, as she was so sure and unsure. She mentioned that she could never get something quite prefect, yet she wanted it to have that flaw. That reminds me of the street artist in this episode, Margaret Kilgallen. She said “My hand will always be imperfect, because it’s human.” I love that because it’s how I feel about everything. Nothing is prefect not even art.

The two photographs are Sally’s titled Untitled (#1), which is the tree and The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude. The tree is on this page is here because I love trees. A tree is a great art subject, even though over done at times, I like how the trunk is clear and the rest of the tree is blurry. It’s dream like. My favorite part about The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude is the way his hands hit the water. He breaks the glass lake. I grew up around water, pretty much going to the lake every weekend in the summer, so I can look at Sally’s photo and feel the water. I use to drag my hands across the water just like Emmett did.