To see all of the College for Creative Studies student exhibition currently on view at the Taubman Center, you would need more time than the remaining three days the show will be exhibited. Covering four floors plus part of the lobby, the show contains thousands of pieces. If you can negotiate the elevator system, which seems to be mapped out like Outer Drive, it's also a good opportunity to see the newly renovated, former Argonaut Building.
Luckily the views from the upper floors offer a break from room upon room of both accomplished and questionably executed works. The students run the gamut from shameless self-promoters to subtle practitioners of their craft. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by all that's going on and fatigue can lead to a rash decision that there's little here worth noting. Of course that's not true, but it is hard sometimes to separate the earnest from the dreck.
On the eleventh floor, however, there is a powerful, riveting piece. A row of 37 books lay flat on a table. Each has a single hole clawed through its hard cover to reveal a single word excavated from the pages within. Read from left to right the 37 words form a raw, honest sentence in desperate need of being heard.
The work is by Chelsea Shultz and is titled "Self Portrait". I have no idea who she is but I would like to commend her for bringing something of merit into this world.
Well since it's unlikely that I will be able to get there before it is over, I hope that upon the closing of the show you'll grace us with the 37 word sentence.
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Nice. thank you. a hole new variation of newspaper blackout.
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