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What a pleasure it was to have an extraordinary and polymedia artist come to our Art 102 class. Bruce Conkle works with two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and four-dimensional time based art. His time base art had the most impact on me and my understanding of art changed. Many of his works has a political aspect to it, but it is not sanctimonious. His work assumes a message the viewer has to interpret. Conkle’s art has a mystery and dark humor to it. A person may have an idea of art being of old master paintings and marble sculptures. Through this class, and especially Conkle’s visit, I realized there are many other art forms that exist. When viewing Conkle’s work in an exhibit, he creates a space that includes everything in it as a single work of art. I wanted to experience this first hand so I ventured to the corner of SW 6th street and W Burnside in downtown Portland. He created three bronze and cast concrete. Two of them are of the snowman tree and his rendition of Brancusi's sculpture Endless Column, Burls will be Burl. He mentioned to the class people will mess with art, so...

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