On Thursday, October eleventh, my Core Studio Concepts class and I made our way to the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) to view one of the many featured female artists there, Shirin Neshat. The piece of most notability is the video Tooba , which shows "an absorbing landscape where men and women are drawn in procession" to Tooba, "a tree of paradise". It features a woman carefully standing, fit perfectly into the tree trunk of Tooba . It was a spellbinding video, very hard to take your eyes off of.
I enjoyed the presentation of the video, it made you completely enveloped in the scene you were taking in. On one end of a long rectangular room there was one giant screen playing the video from a certain perspective, whilst on the other end of the same room, another screen displayed the video from a different perspective. in combination with the sound of the video, the videography itself was intruiging.
The object in question, Tooba, stood in its own , walled off garden in the midst of the rolling hills of desert-like plains. Not to mention, the tree stood out in this environment as one of the tallest living things in its own habitat.
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