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Rhiannon Zergiebel - Artist Talk - VibeGalhotra

           I visited the artist talk given by Vibha Galhotra, who is a New Dehli conceptual artist. Her works were in response to the negative evolvement of our global status. She’s travelled to places like Yamuna, in order to do work on the water pollution there. In her pieces for this project, she took samples from the river every single day for a year and also made a series of paintings using the dirt and mineral pollution from the water to create abstract, black paintings pictured above. She spoke about how she employed a family business to create traditional, authentic glass beads that she could use for her pieces. She talked about how important it was for her to do that because this family was going out of business due to manufacturing of these beads but cheaper in china, and Vibha tried very hard to sustain these very traditional crafts, so even though the family wanted to stop because of sales she solely supported them as a customer in order to create her art.

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This is my favorite dog breed, Gerbarian Shepsky. It’s a mix between a Siberian husky and German shepherd. I love the different contrasting colors in their fur/resemblance to a wolf, and their eyes mostly.

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My least favorite letter in the alphabet is the letter C. I don’t personally like this letter because as a kid I always confused this letter with S and vice versa. I also did the same thing with G’s and J’s but I like the look of those better than C. When C is written very thin like this I don't quite like it since its so thin and simple and also because it reminds me more of an S. There are aspects that I do like though as I usually correlate it with the moon and I love the symbolism of the moon and just it physically. But otherwise, I just am not crazy about this letter. 

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My favorite letter is the letter Z. The main reason is because it is the initial of my last name, and I take a lot of pride in what being a Zergiebel is. My family writes our Z’s in this style of it being turned down and up at the edges and we draw a line through the middle. I think when a Z is portrayed like this it becomes more dramatic obviously but holds a stronger power in a way. It reminds me of the medieval times and swords mainly because of the calligraphic style and the lines going through it makes the connection to swords in my head. The symmetry in the letter also is very aesthetically pleasing to see for me as well.