Although I have never been labeled as artistic, I have always appreciated looking at pieces of art. One of my fondest memories growing up was visiting the Washington D.C. museum of modern and contemporary art. I nearly suffocated from laughing at most of the work. Now I understand that these artists invested a lot of time into their craft, but when you paste essentially four white pieces of oaktag on top of each other and it ends up in a museum I just cant hold it in. (See picture below)

Tonight was different. A major reason why was because I actually got a chance to converse with the artist, Nicholas Carbanaro, so that he can paint me a picture of what he was thinking and feeling while creating his art. One question I asked Carbanaro was why is it that in every piece there was some sort of face or profile. He responded by saying that he sees different faces everyday. In the past he has worked at Madame Tussauds and was a member of the Ithaca College makeup department. Even today, he styles hair in collegetown. It is amazing the things you can learn about a person just by talking to them and the meanings you can make by examining art. It would have been interesting to see what the artist of the piece above was thinking when he was creating it.